"Complex problems demand massive amounts of data to solve," said Conor Riffle, director of data product innovation at the Carbon Disclosure project, which has released climate change data on the world's 100 biggest cities. "We need to improve the free flow of climate change data so we can start to get a handle on protecting people and property from the coming impacts of a changing climate".
I initially led the product data science team, working on a variety of data products across the business.
"NCR got an early start," admits Jagdish Mirani Jagdish Mirani, Oracle's senior director of data warehouse product marketing.
"NCR got an early start," admits Jagdish Mirani, Oracle's senior director of data warehouse product marketing.
"Many parents rely on wireless phones to help them stay connected to their children wherever they go," said Kevin McGinnis, director of wireless data product management for Sprint.
"We've been behind schedule in rolling out D.S.L. on Long Island," Pete Castleton, executive director of high-speed data products for Bell Atlantic, acknowledged, "but now the logjam seems to be breaking up".
Traditionally, manufacturers have had limited insight into how customers use the products they make, says Duncan Ross, director of data science at Teradata, the big data analytics specialist.
Chandra Narayanan's doctorate is in oceanography, and as director of data science for Facebook, he has engaged with almost every product in the company.
It hired Netflix's director of data science and engineering in 2013 to become its director of analytics and make data a central part of its product, marketing and strategy.
Sean Owen is the director of data science at Cloudera.
