Steve Hillion chief product officer at Alpine Data Labs, which promises the fastest path to insight from Big Data, said a few companies and government agencies have been using Big Data for years - Coca-Cola, Proctor and Gamble, telcos and intelligence services for example. They already have all of the background.” This is a great opportunity to educate them on some of the new tools and on MapReduce. “The experienced quants have been using data mining tools. No need to wait for universities to churn out Data Scientists in his opinion. “So we allow you to pick the best of both.” Aster can do SQL and SQL MapReduce codes and data mining using R in SAS. They can learn a parallel programming framework like MapReduce, but he thinks much of the analytics runs just fine on SQL language databases Teradata Aster has more than 25 clients using more than a petabyte of data. They are hard to find coming out of universities, he admits, but people with a combination of those skills have been around for 20 years and are called business analysts. Randy Lea at Teradata’s Aster Center of Innovation, defines a Data Scientist as a person with mathematical and statistical skills, an investigative mind, an understanding of computer languages like C++ and Java and ability to write code.

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