{"id":12378,"date":"2014-01-06T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2014-01-06T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:28:36","slug":"sap-big-data-chat-the-data-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/sap-big-data-chat-the-data-scientist.html","title":{"rendered":"SAP Big Data Chat: The Data Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/704qp57m9SI\" height=\"388\" width=\"690\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last month, I hosted a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saphana.com\/community\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/join-the-sap-big-data-chat--the-data-scientist\" target=\"_blank\">Big Data Hangout<\/a>\u201d featuring SAP\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShekharIyer111\" target=\"_blank\">Shekhar Iyer<\/a>, Global VP Analytics &amp; Big Data and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidWGinsberg\" target=\"_blank\">David Ginsberg<\/a>, Chief Data Scientist.<\/p>\n<p>The hour-long discussion covered different topics about data science and data scientists, including questions from the audience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is a data scientist and what do they do?<\/li>\n<li>Why now?<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of business challenges does Data Science address?<\/li>\n<li>Example use cases<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of skills are needed?<\/li>\n<li>What SAP technologies are we talking about?<\/li>\n<li>Typical barriers to success?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s going to happen in the future?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find out more about SAP\u2019s Data Science at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapbigdata.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sapbigdata.com\/<\/a> \u2013 including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapbigdata.com\/services\/\" target=\"_blank\">Data Science services available through David Ginsberg\u2019s team<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can view the whole session above, or view the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLWV533hWWvDlD3D--DBwX5yt5PNlIgJKg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube playlist<\/a> to go directly to a topic of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Missed the previous Big Data Hangout sessions? See them here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/sap-big-data-chat-hana-hadoop.html\" target=\"_blank\">SAP Big Data Chat: HANA &amp; Hadoop<\/a> with SAP\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nstevenlucas\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Lucas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/sap-hortonworks-hangout-big-data-meets-enterprise-systems.html\" target=\"_blank\">SAP &amp; Hortonworks Hangout: Big Data Meets Enterprise Systems<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/hortonworks.com\/\">Hortonworks<\/a> CTO <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ikarzali\">Ari Zilka<\/a> and SAP\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/i_KHANA\">Irfan Khan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saphana.com\/community\/blogs\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/replay-and-watch-the-2013-sap-big-data-chat-series\" target=\"_blank\">List of Big Data Hangouts of 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBig Data Hangout\u201d featuring SAP\u2019s Shekar Iyer, Global VP Analytics &#038; Big Data and David Ginsberg, Chief Data Scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,100,173,204,344,345,360,361,365,560,835,911,964,965],"class_list":["post-12378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bigdata","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-business-intelligence","tag-data-science","tag-data-scientist","tag-datascience","tag-datascientist","tag-david-ginsberg","tag-hana","tag-predictive","tag-sap","tag-shekar-iyer","tag-shekhar-iyer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/data-science-banner-1.jpg?fit=690%2C310&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3dE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}