“Analytics is the biggest draw for Engineering hirers”.
Move over IT and finance. As 2014 draws to an end, Analytics reigns supreme amongst Engineering graduates.
Let us take a quick look at the changing recruiting landscape:
Start-ups have replaced conventional multinationals as top recruiters in campus placements (check this out)
E-tailers are the hottest recruiters today (Flipkart,
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In a fast-evolving analytics landscape, analytics hiring is on a steep curve - increased by more than 80 % over the past year!
Let us examine what is trending with respect to analytics hiring:
HIRERs
Who are currently the top analytics hirers?
Dunnhumby, Sapient, Cognizant, Reverse Logistics, Infoexcel Consulting, Genpact
Which employers offer competitive packages?
Flipkart, Fractal, MuSigma, Dell, Cognizant, JP
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Data is core to analytics and a good data governance is part of the analytical framework of a company. Data governance helps maintain quality, consistency and good workflow of data, for effective return on assets. Every company today recognizes the importance of having a smooth and effective data governance in place.
Companies cannot have a general
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With this issue Ivy Professional School, the venture of Kolkata based edu company Ivy Knowledge Services (P) Ltd., proudly announces its partnership programme with Bangalore based Vanguard Business School. Coming in the wake of its New Delhi School earlier this year, the latest venture marks IVY’s footprint in Southern India.
6 Reasons Why 8,000+ Professionals have chosen Ivy
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Why IVY
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With progress in the field of data science; climate experts, private players and the academia, are exploring the scope of information that can be extracted from climate trends and computer models. In recognition of the need for innovation in climate data analytics, the United Nations even unveiled a Big Data Climate Change Challenge that saw
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Whether you are an analytics pundit or a newbie wanting to work with data, you simply cannot ignore the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel.
From being a simple spreadsheet programme containing loads of data, MS Excel has emerged as a BI tool, indispensable for data professionals. Its unlimited potential to work with data and statistical analyses makes it
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It is all over the place. Analytics has gone ‘visual’ in a big way.
So what’s with Visual Analytics, the actively trending analytic topic of 2014?
Visual Analytics is a science.
Why Visual Analytics?
As real-world problems become more complex, human intelligence becomes a part of the data analysis process at an early stage. Background or domain knowledge needs to
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If you are working with Big Data or advanced analytics, this is one term you will invariably come across - the data sandbox. The term takes its cue from the traditional sandbox, designed to prevent sand from getting mixed with other on-site material while the child plays. The ‘data sandbox’ is similarly devised to enable
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A round-up of what's been happening in the Indian Analytics space ...
As the Indian start-up ecosystem gets bigger and faster, the need for analytics and Big Data training takes precedence. This month we find a new approach taken by the corporate sector to fill the gap between jobs and appropriate skill sets with TCS entering
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The fight against terrorism - an application area with plenty of scope for development
Terrorist activities are trending strongly across news channels and investigative operations. In this scenario, surely analytics can help fight terrorism by predicting terror attacks and identifying terrorist financing? Oddly enough, it was a lawyer who first advocated wielding the power of data mining
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Much is mentioned about the way Disruptive Technologies have stormed the field of analytics, and in particular Big Data Analytics.
Although, the term was originally popularised by the Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator's Dilemma, referring largely to innovations in technology, one finds an increasing mention in analytics.
So let us examine how technology came
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The month of September has been a ‘wait and watch’ period to see how the new Government implements reforms, in particular exchange of technology and FDIs. Although, the India-US talks of September 29-30 will take some time to get off the ground, will it mean we can see more FDIs in the analytics industry and
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This month we make a detour from our usual analytics start-up profiles. We feature a specialised executive search firm focused exclusively on Analytics and Risk Management talent hiring cutting across the industry sectors.
The traditional placement firms have today evolved in fresh avatars, with add-on services, niche domains serviced, or management hiring ‘only’ like this start-up
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It is a data-driven world today, where every organisation or company is working with data. However, data alone is not sufficient for decision-making, unless analysed for insights.
Data analysis is the very first step towards making sense of any data. It is very often an entry level job, which requires good computer skills and an understanding
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Analytics helps solve many problems across various application areas like healthcare, retail, climate science, crime, banking, fraud and more. Each of these different applications calls for some basic domain knowledge. For instance, to solve a problem of your retailer client, you would need to have an idea of retail operations in general.
However, what happens when
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So you have completed your analytics training and are pitching for a job. Or you may have decided for a lateral shift in your analytics career and are looking for an analytics role that excites you. Whatever be, you need to get your portfolio in shape if you want to land a great job.
Select your
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