{"id":42544,"date":"2013-09-23T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=42544"},"modified":"2013-09-23T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:44:57","slug":"ibms-big-data-education-outreach-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/09\/23\/ibms-big-data-education-outreach-booker\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM&#8217;s big data education outreach [Booker]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/big-data\/news\/big-data-analytics\/ibms-big-data-education-outreach\/240161428\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IBM&#8217;s big data education outreach<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from InformationWeek.com by Ellis Booker; with thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwire.com\/technology\/ibms-big-data-education-outreach\/\" target=\"_blank\">EducationDive for their posting this<\/a><br \/>\n<em>In the last decade, IBM has partnered with more than 1,000 universities to increase the world&#8217;s pool of computer science graduates.\u00a0 Latest focus: Big data.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The scarcity of data scientists is a problem<\/strong> for platform and tools vendors like IBM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Even with impressive improvements in data visualization tools such as dashboards, IBM&#8217;s customers need employees able to set up these systems, correctly interpret their output and discuss it with business-side colleagues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">IBM and other technology companies themselves need new workers, trained in the latest data-science concepts and techniques. Like many of its customers, IBM is having trouble hiring enough data scientists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>For both of these reasons, IBM has been working closely with colleges and universities. Its educational partnerships now number more than 1,000 globally.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fcw.com\/articles\/2013\/09\/17\/big-data-analyst-shortage.aspx \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gold in the data, but a shortage of miners<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from fcw.com by Mark Rockwell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM&#8217;s big data education outreach &#8212; from InformationWeek.com by Ellis Booker; with thanks to EducationDive for their posting this In the last decade, IBM has partnered with more than 1,000 universities to increase the world&#8217;s pool of computer science graduates.\u00a0 Latest focus: Big data. Excerpt (emphasis DSC): The scarcity of data scientists is a problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,174,115,45,112,298,95,3,547,309,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-data-related-items","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-ibm","category-platforms","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42544"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42553,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions\/42553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}