EDUCATION - Data Scientists -- Don't Wait For Universities, Grow Your Own

Actian Corporation, formerly known as Ingres, has been pursuing high speed, deep analytical processing of big data through a series of acquisitions. No one there has time to wait several years for universities to begin graduating data scientists. The company looks to educating database administrators in data science and deploying new visual programming tools which allows a larger group of programmers to work with big data. They have work to do if software is going to catch up with hardware.

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