The Briefing Room with Neil Raden and Actian
Live Webcast Sept. 3, 2013
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Respected research institutes keep saying we have a shortage of data scientists, which makes sense because the title is so new. But most business analysts and serious data managers have at least some of the necessary training to fill this new role. And any number of curious, diligent professionals can learn how to be a data scientist, if they can get access to the right tools and education.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Neil Raden of Hired Brains offer insights about how to identify the key characteristics of a data scientist role. He'll then explain how professionals can incrementally improve their data science skills. He'll be briefed by John Santaferraro of Actian, who will showcase his company's Data Flow Engine, which provides unprecedented visual access to highly complex data flows. This, coupled with Actian's multiple analytics database technologies, opens the door to whole new avenues of possible insights.
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Welcome
Host:
Eric Kavanagh
eric.kavanagh@bloorgroup.com
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! Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software,
good and bad
! Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s innovative
technologies
! Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy
analysts
! Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and get
answers!
Mission
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Topics
This Month: ANALYTICS
October: DATA PROCESSING
November: DATA DISCOVERY &
VISUALIZATION
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Analyst: Neil Raden
Neil Raden is the founder and Principal Analyst
at Hired Brains Research. He is the co-author,
with James Taylor, of “Smart (Enough) Systems:
How To Deliver Competitive Advantage by
Automating Hidden Decisions.” With 30 years
experience, he is a widely published writer,
well-known speaker, analyst and consultant,
having personally designed and implemented
dozens of large analytical applications in
finance, marketing, distribution, logistics,
actuarial, intelligence, scientific, statistical and
consumer products. As an industry analyst, he
has published over 40 white papers, hundreds of
articles, blogs and research reports. He
welcomes your comments and can be reached
at nraden@hiredbrains.com.
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Actian
! Actian is a database and software development company
! Actian offers the ParAccel DataFlow Engine, a scalable
parallel platform which provides visual access to complex
data flows
! The DataFlow Engine is designed to reduce cluster
complexity, manage multi-petabytes of data, and scale with
the size and dimensionality of the data
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Guest: John Santaferraro
John Santaferraro is the Vice President of Product
Marketing at Actian. Prior to joining Actian, Santaferraro
was an independent industry analyst in the business
intelligence and analytics market. Before that he
developed and executed a vertical market strategy for
Hewlett Packard's BI group, focusing on energy,
communications, retail, healthcare and financial services;
he was also instrumental in helping establish HP’s new BI
business group with a combination of solutions, products
and consulting. In 2000, John founded a marketing and
sales consulting company, Ferraro Consulting, providing
business acceleration strategy for technology companies.
9. Enabling the Business Scientist
John Santaferraro
Vice President of Marketing, ParAccel Platform Group
September 3, 2013
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Perceptions & Questions
Analyst:
Neil Raden
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Types
and
Roles
Neil
Raden
Founder,
Hired
Brains
Research
Twi>er:
NeilRaden
Blog:
h>p://hiredbrains.wordpress.com
Website:
h>p://www.hiredbrains.com
Mail:
nraden@hiredbrains.com
LinkedIn:
h>p://www.linkedin.com/in/neilraden
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30. Even
Big
Data
Doesn’t
Speak
for
Itself
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• Incomplete!
• Behaviors under-
represented!
• Anonymizing
disasters!
• Selection!
• ML still needs
analyst!
Not
a
crystal
ball
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Quartet
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Mean
of
x
=
9
Variance
of
x
=
11
Mean
of
y
=
7.50
Variance
of
y
=
4.122
Correla5on
between
x
and
y
=
0.816
Linear
regression
line
y
=
3.00
+
0.500x
32. Descrip3ve
Title Quan3ta3ve
Sophis3ca3on/
Numeracy
Sample
Roles
Type
I Quan5ta5ve
R&D PhD
or
equivalent Crea5on
of
theory,
development
of
algorithms.
Academic
/research.
Work
in
business/government
for
very
specialized
roles
Type
II Data
Scien5st
or
Quan5ta5ve
Analyst
Advanced
Math/Stat,
not
necessarily
PhD
Internal
expert
in
sta5s5cal
and
mathema5cal
modelling
and
development,
with
solid
business
domain
knowledge.
Type
III Opera5onal
Analy5cs
Good
business
domain,
background
in
sta5s5cs
op5onal
Running
and
managing
analy5cal
models.
Strong
skills
in
and/or
project
management
of
analy5cal
systems
implementa5on
Type
IV Business
Intelligence/
Discovery
Data
and
numbers
oriented,
but
no
special
advanced
sta5s5cal
skills
Repor5ng,
dashboard,
OLAP
and
visualiza5on,
some
design,
posterior
analysis
of
results
from
quan5ta5ve
methods.
Spreadsheets,
“business
discovery
tools”
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Analy3c
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Types
of
Analysis
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Analy3c
Types
• How
would
you
describe
the
difference
between
a
data
scien5st
and
a
business
scien5st?
• What
tools
are
needed
to
support
a
business
analyst?
• What’s
the
career
path
for
a
business
analyst?
• Is
big
data
suffering
from
hype?
34. Ques5ons
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Analy3c
Types
• Why
do
you
think
people
are
afraid
of
math?
• Should
universi5es
prepare
people
for
business
science
or
should
industry?