M.S. in Data Science

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Top 5 questions for data scientists

Data scientists are increasingly important to organizations as decisions become more data driven. You need to be able to tell the real and talented data scientists from a charlatan who talks the talk. Here are five questions every data scientist should be able to answer…Read More

Five building blocks of a data-driven culture

How can organizations leverage data as a strategic asset? Data comes at a high price. Businesses must pay for data collection and cleansing, hosting and maintenance, salaries of data engineers, data scientists and analysts, risk of breach and so on…Read more

Data scientists are tech-minded problem-solvers

“If you ask 10 different people what a data scientist is, you’ll get about 10 different answers,” says Cal Al-Dhubaib. As someone who strives to make others aware about this burgeoning career, Al-Dhubaib defines data science as the process of using programming and statistics to solve meaningful business problems…Read more

Turning AI Against Cancer at the Data Science Bowl

Today Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle today announced the winners of the third annual Data Science Bowl, a competition that harnesses the power of data science and crowdsourcing to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems. This year’s challenge brought together nearly 10,000 participants from across the world… Read more

Why creatives and data scientists should walk hand in hand

It isn’t news that marketers across the spectrum are dealing with overwhelming amounts of data. A KPMG study recently revealed that 97% of businesses use data and analytics in some area of their organisation, and research firm International Data Corporation has predicted worldwide revenues for business analytics will reach over £147 billion by 2019… Read […]