Then today, I received an email from Daniel Hom, a data analyst at Tableau Software.
Stephanie Eidelman is the publisher of insideARM.com and also the resident Excel expert and data analyst.
Now that I run my own firm covering Big Data, I realize how much more challenging being a Big Data analyst is.
Estimates of the data scientist shortage had ranged from 150, 000 to 1.5 million, depending on the geography and the definition of data scientist or data analyst.
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New survey data from analyst Baird analyst William Power provides further evidence that Apple is going to see explosive demand for the iPhone 5.
Biomedical engineer, network systems and data communications analyst, home health aide: those are the top three career fields expected to hire workers between now and 2018, says a story tucked into The New York Times Education Life supplement last Sunday.
Data integration processes (often called ETL when building a data warehouse or data prep when an analyst is massaging data) can take place in Pentaho so that the massive work of massaging and cleaning data does not have to be tightly bound to a specific data warehouse technology or to complicated programming methods.
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But after that initial gain, AMD's share moved only sideways, according to data from IDC analyst Shane Rau.
International Data Corp. analyst Al Gillen says NetWare 5.1 might be just the thing to keep NetWare customers from moving to NT or Linux.
But given the intense coverage these firms receive, I wondered if a focus on data derived from analyst work-product might be one way to get an edge.
"As an industry, we spent 20 years building for voice capacity and 10 years fixing it that so that it would work for mobile data, " said John Byrne, an analyst at research firm International Data Corp.
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He'd survived layoffs at Goldman Sachs' Silicon Valley offices during the dot-com crash, become a well-regarded equity analyst of data storage companies, then taken his stock-picking skills into hedge funds.
Before teaming with EMC, Dell tried to develop an advanced storage technology with StorageApps (a firm it helped finance) but quickly realized it was in way over its head, says John Webster, senior analyst with Data Mobility Group.
Focusing the scope on individual consumers, the analyst cites data from Wal-Mart, which, given its capacity to relay real time data, allows the retail giant to offer guidance on what and, importantly, when consumers are buying.
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"If they could achieve compatibility, " says Wolfgang Schlichting, an analyst at International Data Corp.
If Dell goes after that segment of the market, says Roger Kay, an analyst with International Data Corp.
Web Clipping is "fast and efficient" at downloading snippets of information, said Jill House, a research analyst with International Data Corp.
Through complex algorithms, the technique can extract patterns or anomalies in data collections that a human analyst could not possibly discern.
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It's one thing to block a rival's Web address from accessing your site, notes Barry Parr, an analyst with International Data Corp.
For cybercommerce to work, "financial institutions have to get their act together, " says Pete Hitchens, a Net analyst with International Data Corp. in Singapore.
"As soon as you get a large number of users, distributing certificates becomes unmanageable, " says Steve Harris, an analyst with International Data Corp. in New York.
Ramon Llamas, a senior research analyst at International Data Corp.
And in terms of predictive analysis, a pie chart of where someone goes most frequently, or who they tweet to, is simple data crunching that a human analyst could do, albeit with more time and effort.
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In Rome this year, Nadal attempted 15 first serves to Djokovic's forehand in the deuce court, compared to 10 down the center "T" to his backhand, according to Craig O'Shannessy, a strategy analyst who compiles data on pro tennis.
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Another worry, according to Robin Harris, an analyst with the Data Mobility Group, is that Blu-Ray adoption will be slow because few people will notice the difference between formats, since many players can neatly "up-convert" DVDs for high-definition sets.
"Free ISPs are not going to be just a flash in the pan if they can create value-added services" and can keep surfers coming back to their websites, says Matthew McGarvey, regional Internet analyst for International Data Corp. in Hong Kong.
Particularly important are the gains in U.S. labor data, said Michael Gavin, analyst at Barclays.
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Analyst sentiment about Automatic Data Processing has waned during the last three months.
And Verizon could face big hurdles in getting the new technology adopted, says Amy DeCarlo, principal analyst, security and data center services at Current Analysis in Sterling, Virginia.
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