SAP Big Data Chat: The Data Scientist [VIDEO]

Last month, I hosted a “Big Data Hangout” featuring SAP’s Shekhar Iyer, Global VP Analytics & Big Data and David Ginsberg, Chief Data Scientist.

Last month, I hosted a “Big Data Hangout” featuring SAP’s Shekhar Iyer, Global VP Analytics & Big Data and David Ginsberg, Chief Data Scientist.

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The hour-long discussion covered different topics about data science and data scientists, including questions from the audience:

• What is a data scientist and what do they do?
• Why now?
• What kinds of business challenges does Data Science address?
• Example use cases
• What kinds of skills are needed?
• What SAP technologies are we talking about?
• Typical barriers to success?
• What’s going to happen in the future?

You can find out more about SAP’s Data Science at http://www.sapbigdata.com/ – including the Data Science services available through David Ginsberg’s team

You can view the whole session above, or view the YouTube playlist to go directly to a topic of interest.