Data Analytics — Where is it Heading?
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Poornachandra Sarang
Originally published on Towards AI.
Understanding the current state of data analytics from a data scientist’s perspective
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Many years ago, when the field of data analytics spun off, it was mainly the statistical analysis of data on small datasets. We used to talk about just a few thousand of data points in those datasets. Today, the datasets run into terabytes. Data scientists of today not only have to handle such large datasets which are static, but they have to deal with even dynamic datasets.
Business stakeholders expect data scientists to discover the hidden insights from streaming high-frequency datasets where the frequency could be a few terabytes of data collected each day. Such data… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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