The other day I was talking to a friend who is Big Data practice head for IT service company. He says every IT department want to have some Big Data project. They are even thinking of productized solution called "Data Scientist in a box". Putting HBase cluster and selling it to IT.
I read today on "Cloud data Scientist be your next Job?" http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/060412-data-scientist-259697.html
The article says data scientist is the one who can connect business problems to Business Problems, Data and Mathematical models. It thought it was something used heavily but Financial Industry (Actuarial Science) ?
Here it goes in the article "Donald Farmer, vice president of product management at business intelligence software maker QlikView, says most enterprises can make use of data scientists to improve processes and identify new business opportunities. For instance, in financial services, data scientists can develop algorithms for trading and risk management, and in pharmaceuticals they can study drug test results."
So Data scientist and Big data technologies can make Actuarial Service more accessible?
Or it is more a Data Journalist as Martin Fowler talks in this presentation. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Evolving-Panorama-of-Data
To conclude let me pull I read another article I read today. http://service-architecture.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/thinking-is-dead.html
I am seeing some new nails to hit with big data skills...
