Data Scientists
Future-proofing cybersecurity: Of Mormons and moms
There is no doubt that Blue Coat Systems Inc has gone through a lot of changes in the last four years and has fallen off the radar, but the company is poised for a resurgence, says its CTO Dr Hugh Thompson.
The data scientist market: Some thoughts and tips
A Q&A with Max Song, William Chen, Carl Shan and Henry Wang, who have just published The Data Science Handbook.
A life in data, a handbook for data scientists
The four-man team of Max Song, William Chen, Carl Shan and Henry Wang have published The Data Science Handbook, a compilation of indepth interviews with 25 data scientists who share their insights, stories, and advice. Gabey Goh has the story.
IBM makes major commitment to Open Source BDA platform Apache Spark
IBM Corp has announced what it said was a major commitment to Apache Spark, describing it as the most important new open source project in a decade.
SAS reports 29% revenue growth in Malaysia, driven by BDA
Increased demand for big data analytics and data visualisation amongst Malaysian businesses in 2014 were among the top drivers for SAS’ revenue growth in Malaysia, the company said in a statement.
Seven institutes to offer data science courses: MDeC
MDeC said that seven public and private institutes of higher learning in country will be offering data science courses to university students, graduates and working professionals for careers in data analytics.
Big data centres launched in five Malaysian educational institutes
Malaysia’s Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Prestariang Group have launched the first phase establish Big Data Competency Centres across four universities and one polytechnic in the country.
Malaysia’s big data policy framework ready soon
Malaysia’s ambitions to make the country a big data and analytics hub for the region will be guided by a Policy Framework document that is due to be completed and presented to the Prime Minister by the third quarter of this year, according to a senior Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) official.
Fico to equip data scientists with tools for Kaggle challenges
Fico has announced that it will host Kaggle competitions in the FICO Analytic Cloud, later this year to give data scientists an opportunity to solve analytic challenges facing organizations in life sciences, financial services, retail, insurance and other industries.
SAS Malaysia records RM49.1mil revenue for 2013
SAS Malaysia recorded a 38.1% increase in new software revenue to RM13.9 million and a 13.4% growth in total software revenue to RM41.1 million, according to the company.
