Big data skills growing "exponentially," says AWS Data Science GM - TechRepublic

Excerpt from a timely big data reality check, via @datameer

"That's not surprising to Matt Wood, however. As he told me, the biggest inhibitor to big data productivity has been inflexible data infrastructure.

"The skills were there two years ago" to analyze and derive value from data, he suggested, "but the cost of running a big data project was too high." It's hard to get a manager or purchasing department excited about buying expensive hardware or software for an experiment, but by their very nature, big data projects are experimental.

As he told me, "You're going to fail a lot of the time, and so it's critical to lower the cost of experimentation." After all, you don't necessarily know which data you need to collect in advance or the questions you should ask of it."

Big data skills growing "exponentially," says AWS Data Science GM - TechRepublic