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Data science drives Wall Street and Main Street

Data science drives Wall Street and Main Street

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Data science drives Wall Street and Main Street

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- Data powers everything we do these days. That means that the ways in which organizations identify, accumulate, disseminate, study, store, and act upon data is one of the most important jobs out there, which is why data science is such a burgeoning field, and why it's impacting every industry, and every function, in every geography. The main factor driving this transition at a meta level is the shift from analog data to digital data. Information captured on paper, or created in applications on computer hard drives are now being created and shared using cloud-based documents that are accessible from anywhere and on any device. Spreadsheets are being replaced by block chains. Even email, the initial killer digital app, is being supplanted by text messages delivered via smartphones. The viscosity of data continues to decrease as the volume of digits increases. We find ourselves in the era of big data, dealing with a tsunami…

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