Data Scientists
Malaysia needs to accept failure: Teradata CTO
Malaysia may be ready to become the regional BDA hub, but it needs to address two main challenges: The talent gap, and the ability to accept failure as part of the innovation game.
Utar joins Cloudera big data academic programme
Cloudera has announced that Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) has joined the Cloudera Academic Partnership (CAP) programme, which will gives students access to curriculum, software and skills training on the Apache Hadoop platform.
MDeC’s 2020 vision to make Malaysia a regional BDA hub
MDeC has set a target date of 2020 to make Malaysia a regional hub for Big Data Analytics, announces the Asean Data Analytics Exchange and launches a BDA community portal.
IDA launches fellowship programme for data science and tech talents
The IDA has launched its Smart Nation Fellowship Programme to get data scientists, technologists and engineers to help the Singapore Government deliver digital and data solutions to improve the lives of citizens.
Setting the benchmark for data science in Asia
Through a partnership with US-based The Data Incubator, the KL-based Centre of Applied Data Science hopes to set the benchmark for data science education in Asia.
APAC organisations can see US$65bil productivity boost with data: IDC
Organisations that can analyse all relevant data and deliver actionable information can expect to achieve an extra US$65 billion in productivity benefits over their less analytically-oriented peers by 2020.
Top 5 trends for 2016: Big data gets even bigger
Data will be further embedded into decision-making processes across businesses and industries, writes Daniel Ng of Cloudera.
CIOs to increase IT headcount in South-East Asia: Report
The hiring outlook for the IT sector will be buoyant in South-East Asia over the next 12 months, according to the recent Michael Page Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia 2015/ 16 CIO Viewpoint report.
Manufacturers need a long-term view of IoT: Gartner
Not many manufacturers in Asia are jumping onto the IoT bandwagon – for the simple reason that they are too tied up with their day-to-day operations, according to Gartner research vice president Ganesh Ramamoorthy.
Best practices for visual analytics
How can companies effectively tap on visual analytics? What are the best practices to adopt when using visual analytics? Tableau’s JY Pook shares some tips and tricks on how to bring your data visualisations from ‘good’ to ‘great.’
