{"id":572,"date":"2012-10-31T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2012-10-31T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:35:01","slug":"big-data-what-types-of-skills-do-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/big-data-what-types-of-skills-do-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data &#8211; What Types of Skills Do You Need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 100&#8217;s of Terabytes of data, companies want new hires who understand the the entire scope of big data processing. It is\u00a0 a different mindset, and there is a struggle to identify the skills needed, but some have been tagged.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with traditional SQL relational databases<\/li>\n<li>Distributing loads on servers<\/li>\n<li>Strong math and coding skills and business savvy<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to learn new skills (different database or OS)<\/li>\n<li>Higher level quantitative skill sets<\/li>\n<li>Research Scientist background<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because of the shortage, crossing from one industry to another is not a considerable barrier. Modis Kelly says, &#8220;Data is data. Industry vertical really isn&#8217;t going to be the key driver. Its going to be what did you do with the data, how large of an environment was it.&#8221; Hiring organizations will avoid backgrounds with small companies because of the small data experience being so radically different. Jim Yu says it involves finding candidates who, &#8220;understand the right questions to ask around this data and how to tease this into actions that result in business outcomes for our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Computerworld, <em>Big data worker shortage demands job candidates with diverse backgrounds<\/em> by Fred O\u2019Connor, October 10, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 100&#8217;s of Terabytes of data, companies want new hires who understand the the entire scope of big data processing. It is\u00a0 a different mindset, and there is a struggle to identify the skills needed, but some have been tagged. Working with traditional SQL relational databases Distributing loads on servers Strong math and coding skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,89,11,13,14,68,15],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-best-practices","tag-business-intelligence","tag-cloud-computing","tag-datacenter","tag-database","tag-information-technology","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}