Big Data Is Great, but Don’t Forget Intuition - NYTimes.com

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"Indeed, Big Data does seem to be facing a work-force bottleneck.
“We can’t grow the skills fast enough,” says Ms. Perlich, who formerly worked for I.B.M. Watson Labs and is an adjunct professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
A report last year by the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm, projected that the United States needed 140,000 to 190,000 more workers with “deep analytical” expertise and 1.5 million more data-literate managers, whether retrained or hired."

Big Data Is Great, but Don’t Forget Intuition - NYTimes.com