Northwestern addresses big data skills gap with analytics degree
Northwestern University is doing its bit to feed the need for analytics skills in this era of big data.
The university’s McCormick School of Engineering this week launched a newMasters of Science degree in analytics and is accepting applications for the inaugural class to kick off next September. Included in the curriculum will be coursework on big data analytics.
The impetus ia an overwhelming demand for analytics expertise spurred by the surge of big data applications, as more businesses need to glean information about their customers from social media sites and other data sources. Expertise in the Hadoop big-data framework, for example, is in huge demand and has become nearly prohibitively expensive for many companies.
Source: gigaom.com
