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Cheap storage along with massive processing capability, big data is creating ripples in the businessIT world. With tools like Hadoop, it goes beyond comprehension as to how big the big data wave is going to be. What resulted out of this data revolution is a new set of jobs for the business IT professionals. Big data has made it simple for organizations to scoop out information from terabytes of data. Today, anything and everything is about harvesting the data. Whether it is the tool making industry or health care, auto repair or education big data is transforming every industry. The dire need for smart technology has made big data inevitable. Thus, big data experts are and will be the most sought after because the world needs new devices and smarter technologies. In this blog, we have put down five types of big data jobs that will drive the big data revolution. Data Scientist: Linkedin's data scientist Jonathan Goldman's job has become a benchmark. Once a doctorate in Physics, ultimately became a data scientist after joining Linkedin. Goldman was supposed to make out a product from the huge amount of data churned out of social network. What resulted from that is what we see as Linkedin features like People you might know It is an algorithm that looks up nonobvious links between people and suggests recommendations to make new connections. Data scientists can be called the new heroes in the making who are not limited to just social networks and data warehousing firms. Industries who are using tools like hadoop are more inclined towards hiring data scientists, and that includes industries in retail, healthcare, consumer packaged goods and internet industry dealing with a huge amount of data. Data visualization: "Just using excel is insufficient when you're looking at hundreds of thousands of student records with hundreds of data points for each.When I got into admissions work, my job was to build relationships and work with families to get them to enroll. Today it's about identifying which students we should be building relationships with and whether they fit the institution we are working for. I needed to find tools that would let

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Cheap storage along with massive processing capability, big data is creating ripples in the business-IT world. With tools like Hadoop, it goes beyond comprehension as to how big the big data wave is going to be. What resulted out of this data revolution is a new set of jobs for the business IT professionals.

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Cheap storage along with massive processing capability, big data is creating ripples in the 

business­IT world. With tools like Hadoop, it goes beyond comprehension as to how big 

the big data wave is going to be. What resulted out of this data revolution is a new set of 

jobs for the business IT professionals. Big data has made it simple for organizations to 

scoop out information from terabytes of data. Today, anything and everything is about 

harvesting the data. Whether it is the tool making industry or health care, auto repair or 

education­ big data is transforming every industry. The dire need for smart technology has 

made big data inevitable. Thus, big data experts are and will be the most sought after 

because the world needs new devices and smarter technologies. 

In this blog, we have put down five types of big data jobs that will drive the big data 

revolution. 

Data Scientist: Linkedin's data scientist Jonathan Goldman's job has become a 

benchmark. Once a doctorate in Physics, ultimately became a data scientist after joining 

Linkedin. Goldman was supposed to make out a product from the huge amount of data 

churned out of social network. What resulted from that is what we see as Linkedin features 

like People you might know­ It is an algorithm that looks up non­obvious links between 

people and suggests recommendations to make new connections.  

Data scientists can be called the new heroes in the making who are not limited to just 

social networks and data warehousing firms. Industries who are using tools like hadoop 

are more inclined towards hiring data scientists, and that includes industries in retail, 

healthcare, consumer packaged goods and internet industry dealing with a huge amount of 

data. 

Data visualization: "Just using excel is insufficient when you're looking at hundreds of 

thousands of student records with hundreds of data points for each.When I got into 

admissions work, my job was to build relationships and work with families to get them to 

enroll. Today it's about identifying which students we should be building relationships with 

and whether they fit the institution we are working for. I needed to find tools that would let 

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me visualize data in a meaningful way"~ says Mary Chase, VP for enrollment at Creighton 

University.  

Managing a database as huge as this is not a matter of guts. You need to have technology 

to support you. She says "it's no longer acceptable in my profession to make decisions that 

are not data­driven" Ignoring data even if it is available will be nothing but a huge mistake. 

Data Analyst: An analyst is deemed to be the most vital need of the hour for any 

organization churning out terabytes of data. Marketing manager of AxialMarket Cody Boyte 

is a coder as well. He basically engineers marketing elements in his organization. Being an 

analyst, he writes scripts to pull in data from various sources and analyses them to see its 

effectiveness. Boyte is a Journalism major and started off with building websites in 

Wordpress and Drupal. Later he added CSS, PHP scripting, JavaScript and Python. "I 

may never know enough to be the tech lead in a startup, but I know that having an 

understanding of programming gives you a massive advantage in recruiting" says Cody. 

Data Manipulator: Crunching data in Excel is not a matter of joke but Matt Giandonato, 

Digital Print Manager at Tukaiz sends his maximum time doing so. He says "I deal with 

data files every day. Opening a file in Excel is one thing, but learning how to combine files, 

sort them in certain ways, and break out data to work with different workflows was a 

challenge at first. But when demand for these products kept growing, we realized that this 

is the wave of the future". Discovery has shifted its base from being on papers to being 

digital. Thus, clerk and paralegals are now replaced by data experts who knows exactly 

how to play with terabytes of data. Those competent with technology as well as law are now 

the hottest finds. 

IT+Data=Role change: The present generation is moving towards big data. However, 

that doesn't allude to the fact that IT will be REPLACED in anyway. What will happen is a 

change in the roles IT plays.IT professionals are becoming more dynamic every passing 

day. The present scenario calls for the IT pros to take up more interest in data related