Cookies policy

GNOSS usa cookies, propias y de terceros, con finalidad principalmente técnica y necesaria para la prestación de nuestros servicios.Más información sobre nuestra política de cookies. 

 

ACEPTA para confirmar que has leído la información y aceptado su instalación.Puedes modificar la configuración de tu navegador. 

Big Data’s Impact in the World - NYTimes.com

visibility 0
Big Data’s Impact in the World - NYTimes.com

GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.

Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company’s fast-growing ranks of data consultants. They help businesses make sense of an explosion of data — Web traffic and social network comments, as well as software and sensors that monitor shipments, suppliers and customers — to guide decisions, trim costs and lift sales. “I’ve always had a love of numbers,” says Ms. Zhou, whose job as a data analyst suits her skills.

To exploit the data flood, America will need many more like her. A report last year by the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm, projected that the United States needs 140,000 to 190,000 more workers with “deep analytical” expertise and 1.5 million more data-literate managers, whether retrained or hired...

mode_comment comments (0)

Do you want to comment? Sign up or Sign in