With a projected need for 4.4 million data analysts worldwide by 2015, analytics is a prime career path, he said.
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Others work on our product and video teams, or are data analysts, audience development specialists, social media editors and project managers.
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Regardless if they are called Data Scientists or Data Analysts, Data geeks need to be more in control of their destiny.
When it comes to making investment decisions in the market, we have refined information management systems that provide real-time information to data analysts.
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Research commissioned by the BBC by data analysts Experian found Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury to be the top two places for "business champions".
Research commissioned by the BBC from data analysts Experian, suggested export was a key factor in the number of growing companies in the area.
These estimates are made by economists and data analysts at Zillow using an algorithm with real-world data from contractors, such as finish levels and material rates.
Our new editorial newsroom includes producers, an audience development team and data analysts who track new metrics of engagement just as important as the almighty page view.
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Success brings greater revenues and more lucrative sponsorships, which in turn leads to more success via bigger backup teams, greater resources and off-track talent such as aerodynamicists and data analysts.
And where data management and analysis was once a job for IT specialists, now it is more commonly seen as an everyday part of line-of-business operations: in our new survey, 95 percent of respondents told us that their dedicated data analysts work within business groups rather than in the IT department.
According to recent data from analysts at IDC, Android had a 68.1% of the global smartphone market between April and June.
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Combined with demographic factors such as gender, education and partisanship, this data allows analysts to calculate the effects of watching various news sources on information.
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An agile approach to big data puts the means to analyze big data directly in the hands of analysts or data scientists as much as possible.
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Perhaps the greatest winner this election cycle was Nate Silver and the other data-driven analysts.
Support could continue for the PGMs following the jobs data, said analysts.
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In order to get value from big data, business analysts cannot simply be presented with a programming language like Java (or MapReduce) and be expected to start charging forward.
In the U.S., next week brings retail sales data and Nomura analysts said they expect the figures to beat the consensus estimate, which is for a rise of 1.1%.
In order to get value out of big data, business analysts cannot simply be presented with a programming language like Java (or even MapReduce) and be expected to start charging forward.
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That changes how we use data because it lets analysts speculate beyond the initial question that triggered the collection of data.
Winners were selected based on data assembled by FactSet, a U.S. market data company that tracks analysts' recommendations and earnings estimates.
According to 2012 data from publishing industry analysts Codex Group, less overtly explicit covers in fact have a wider appeal among general readers.
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With its large population, Carolinas generates large quantities of data that lets its analysts look at populations with asthma or diabetes and monitor the effects of treatment programs.
These steps should be of vital concern not just to data scientists or BI analysts, but to senior management, the CEO, who should be desperate to assemble the whole picture of what customers are doing from as many sources as possible.
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Analysts generally think investors should stand pat on Automatic Data Processing, with 12 of 24 analysts rating it hold.
Most industry analysts define big data in terms of volume, velocity, and variety of data.
Analysts gave positive data points in the morning calls which served as a warning to short sellers.
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Reducing the quantity and quality of data available to policymakers, analysts and researchers threatens to exacerbate this problem.
Analysts said the data was a sign that economic conditions were improving.
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Financial analysts said the data will influence the short-term direction of the dollar and anything under expectations will likely cause the greenback to slip.
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