By now we are all in agreement: The business of data is changing. Business users are more empowered to work with data; IT is becoming less about control and more about enablement. New data science job descriptions—such as the data scientist—are springing up as companies everywhere look for the right people with the right skill sets to squeeze more value from their data.
Data itself is getting bigger, hardware more economical, and analytical software more “self-service.” We’ve embraced the paradigm shift from traditional BI to iterative data discovery. It’s a new era.
