GROWING DATA SCIENTISTSAmparo Alonso Betanzos

University of Corunna, SPAIN

Gartner Hype cycle

• A

140–190.000 Big Data experts

1.5 M managers with knowledge of Big Data Analytics

92.000 €/year

25-40.000 €/year

67.000 €/year

AVERAGE INCOME

Knowledge EngineeringIntelligent Monitoring

Computer ScienceComputer EngineeringSoftware Engineering

Graduate programs

Research lines

New scalable and efficientcomputational methods

for machine learningin high dimensional datasets

• Maths, Statistics and Machine Learning• Statistical tests, Distributions, MLE, etc• Relational Algebra• Statistical Programming packages (R)• Scripting Languages (Python)• Database query languages, SQL and NoSQL• Computer Science Fundamentals and Software Engineering• Supervised Learning: Decision trees, Random Forests, K-nearest neighboors, ensemble methods,• Unsupervised Learning, clustering• Optimization• Data preprocessing techniques• MapReduce concepts, Hadoop, Hive/Pig, Spark,….

• Expertise, Knowledge Domain• Implementation

• Start working with the candidate in a smallProject

• Empower them in learning technicalcapacities

Communication capacities. Writing and speaking abilities

New techniques

New tools

New data sources

As a Service

Embedded

Hub with teams, rotation

Data Democratization

GROWING DATA SCIENTISTSAmparo Alonso Betanzos

University of Corunna, SPAIN