Analysis: data scientists - a case of quality versus quantity?

Sooraj Shah
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As more organisations seek to exploit big data, so courses designed to teach the requisite data science skills are beginning to spring up. But fears are growing that they might not be attracting the right calibre of candidate

Attempts to save endangered animals, non-intrusive tests for predicting coronary artery disease and using customer data to redesign a company’s whole strategy are just three examples of the many an...

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