I realised how sexy data analytics has become over breakfast at Jimmy's Café in the Silicon Valley suburb of Belmont. I'd always assumed that it was the genius software engineers or the design visionaries who were tech's hottest properties. But across the table, DJ Patil, the PhD number-cruncher who coined the term "data scientist", was explaining that zero-cost memory storage had created the internet's next gold rush. Without enough specialists to go round, he said, "data scientists are the new rock stars".
So this month we sent Neal Pollack to live among the data scientists and learn exactly how their skills are solving multi-billion-pound problems. From cracking the human genome to optimising your LinkedIn network, their ability to turn raw data into actionable information is creating a burst of innovation that makes you wish you'd given more time at school to your algebra homework. Kaggle.com is a web platform for data-science competitions. To win $1,000, for example, simply create an algorithm to "identify people who have a high degree of psychopathy based on Twitter usage". Already, 66 teams are working to crack that one…
By: David Rowan, Edited by: Ian Steadman
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