techtarget.com had a nice interview a little while ago with Hal Varian, chief economist for Google. In the interview Varian discusses the role of data scientists. I particularly like the question where he lists the skills required for a data scientist:
"Database and data manipulation or how to shuffle data around and move things from place to place; statistics and statistical analysis; machine learning; visualization, or how to present data in a meaningful way; and communication or being able to describe what’s going on."
This is exactly the skillset we are creating on the Msc in Computing (Data Analytics) - in fact the skills almost uncannliy match our module names (http://www.comp.dit.ie/dt285/modules.html)!
The full interview is available at:
http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/1280099135/Googles-chief-economist-examines-the-data-scientist-factor
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