13 Big Data Trends: Fodder for Mid Tier Consultants
September 20, 2015
Let’s assume that a colleague has lost his or her job (xe, in Tennessee, I heard). The question becomes, “What can I do with my current skills to make big money is hot new sector?”
The answer appears in “13 New Trends in Big Data and Data Science.” The write up is intended to be a round up of jazzy hot topics in a couple of even hotter quasi-new facets of the database world. Like enterprise search, databases are in need of juice. Nothing helps established technology than new spins in old orbits.
My6 suggestion is to read through the list of 13 “new trends.” Pick one, and suggest to your prospect hunting pal to get hired. Nothing to it.
Allow me to illustrate the method in action.
I have selected trend 8 “The rise of mobile data exploitation.” There are some companies active in this field; for example, S2T. The S2T name means simulation software and technology. The outfit processes a range of digital information and analyzes it with the company’s own tools. Anyone can work in this sector. The demand for talent is high. The work is not too difficult. The desire to hire “experts” various aspects of data is keen. No problem. Sure, there may be some trivial requirements like checking with a person’s mom and his or her best friends to make sure the applicant can be trusted. Hot trend. No problemo.
Let’s look at another field.
Trend 11. High performance computing (HPC). What could be faster than Apple’s new mobile chip? What could be higher performance than the Facebook or Google infrastructure. If the job seeker is familiar with these technologies, the world of Big Data excitement awaits. The experience is the important thing, not knowledge of optimized parallelization pipelines.
Easy.
Each of the 13 trends makes it clear that there are numerous opportunities. These range from digital health (IBM Watson is a PR player) to the trivial world of analytic apps and APIs.
After reading the article, I was delighted to see how many important trends are getting buzz.
Big Data is definitely the go to discipline. I anticipate that anyone interested in search and cotnent processing will be able to pursue a career in Big Data.
Now some skeptics believe that Big Data is a nebulous concept. Do not be dissuaded. The 13 trends are evidence that databases and the analysis of their contents is the future. Just as these activities have been since the days of Edgar Codd.
The mid tier consultants can ride with the hounds.
Stephen E Arnold, September 20, 2015
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