Talk:Lesson04

Lucky us!

It has been already four classes but it is for sure that Visual Analytics is so huge that the number of classes won’t be enough to cover everything. All these data are an infinite resource we can play with. Still in the lesson 04, we have seen it. How the visualization is impressive and interesting just by playing with the different dimensions and categories. Of course, now, data is coming from everywhere and not everyone is seeing it from a good eye. But for my part, I think it as an opportunity. Opportunity for the world to improve itself by analyzing the data but also opportunity for me and us. Data is offering new jobs as data scientist. And this kind of jobs is not boring anymore. There is not only one type of data, we cannot even count them, they will be always something to do and no time to say that we don’t like our job because it is annoying. I don’t know about Singapore, but in my country, Belgium, all this data analyses are quite new. Of course there are experts but the number of data is so huge that they’re not sufficient. Companies are looking for people like us. Able to understand the data, interpret them, give them a story but always with a business side, knowing about what we are working with. But still, these people are difficult to find in Belgium because at school we are not specialize in it. We are talking about Big Data, we have Data Mining classes but that’s it. When I looked through the catalogue here it seems more developed. So I was wondering how does it work here? Do you think employers are searching more and more for data scientist or is it already the case in Singapore? For my part, I am happy to learn about all this techniques and programs because it will be for sure a real difference on my CV. I also think that the quicker entreprises are going to realize how it is important to have people able to deal with data (us), the better it will be for them. It means also that this field will still grow and that our qualifications will be definetely valuable.

Don't hesitate to comment to tell your point of view and if Singapore has already more offering this kind of jobs than in Belgium.

-Margot Stelleman