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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves”, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. The above statements encapsulate the promise and possibilities that data offers. Data Proliferation. quintillion bytes of data every day , the equivalent of more than 100 gigabytes per person per year.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). Within IT consulting, the fastest growing markets are digital, AI, data analytics (also known as data science), cyber security and IT forensics.

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Data Quality Should Be Everyone’s Job

Harvard Business

All of us depend on data created elsewhere to do our work. In the face of errors, most people’s natural reaction is to correct such errors in the data they need — after all, when you’re dealing with a mountain of day-in, day-out demands, that seems the fastest, most efficient way to complete the task at hand.

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Bad Data Costs the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. I call the added steps the “ hidden data factory.”

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Data Breaches Aren’t Just an IT Issue - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM VERIZON

Harvard Business

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Point-of-sale (POS) intrusions : Attacks that capture payment data from POS systems. You don’t know who’s behind it.

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French Hypocrisy at Its Finest: France Broadens Its Surveillance Power; "Susie Did It Too!"

MishTalk

The French government has adopted a bill allowing the authorities to access and gather internet user data in real time without judicial approval. The law gives French intelligence services access to telephone and Internet usage data that would let them locate and follow the target of a terrorism investigation in real time.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Brattle Group is now considered one of the European Union’s top consulting firms in the areas of energy, finance and competition. In 2013, the New York office was established, providing a home base in one the most important finance and legal markets in the world. Regulatory finance. Commercial damages. Accounting.

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