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Staffing, Roles, and Careers


Pooh-Pooh Indeed! -- Q&A With Jill Dyché

How can you choose the right solution when your colleagues are being seduced by the shiniest new BI tools?

Big Data Engineer: The Elusive Job Description

Big data engineer will be among the hottest jobs in 2016, with starting salary growth of almost 9 percent. Wait, what's a big data engineer?

Spark Comes to IBM's System z -- But Who's Buying?

If you have a System z mainframe, IBM says it has a deal for you.

What Kind of Chief Data Officer Is Right for You?

Before an organization hires a CDO -- as more than 1,000 organizations did in 2015 -- it must take stock of how it generates and uses data.

Collaboration and Freedom Key to Data Science Solutions

We continue our interview with the head of an unusual and highly successful data scientist team at Cisco, Robert J. Lake. His approach to managing his team focuses on allowing people to learn and take risks.

Marketing IT In-House: Never Stop Selling Your Project

Don't automatically believe it when you're told there's no money for your BI project.

Data Science as a Team Sport: Building a Culture Open to Risk

The head of a data scientist team at Cisco discusses how he hires and manages his diverse group -- and why the ability to write software code is not a prerequisite.

Propagandizing for Analytics Success

If an advanced analytics project is going to succeed you gave to market it -- hard.

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