Preparing for 2012: Search and More
December 31, 2011
Organizations are coming to understand that even if their employees are experts in their field, what they also need are experts in the field of applied mathematics. Gigaom reported on the growing need for applied mathematicians to create big data strategies in the article “Spread the Word: Math Is the New Sexiness in IT.”
The article states:
Analyzing traditional business data held in a data warehouse is one thing, but doing big data and, more specifically, data science is quite another. McKinsey & Co. predicts that by 2018, the United States will have a shortage of 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions,” and a shortage of almost 200,000 people with the deep analytical skills necessary for data science.
Big data is molding the future of careers and is evolving at a rate that is faster than the majority of us can keep up with. If we don’t start making math an appealing career field, the Big Data problem could become too much to handle. You can either be a user of ATM machines or you can program ATM machines. You pick.
Jasmine Ashton, December 31, 2011
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