{"id":2948,"date":"2014-01-03T20:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2014-01-03T20:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:53:18","slug":"data-scientist-evolution-of-the-business-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/data-scientist-evolution-of-the-business-analyst\/2948\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Scientist: Evolution of the Business Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"The business\/data analyst role is evolving into a new role due in part to the new technology of big data. The data scientist role has emerged because of the increase in breadth and depth of data being examined. In addition to computer science and analytical skills, a data scientist has a strong business sense and the ability to communicate findings to both business and IT teams. They review data from multiple sources, looking at it from various angles, searching to discover insight into the data which will provide a competitive advantage or help resolve a business issue. Data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/data-scientist-evolution-of-the-business-analyst\/2948\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The business\/data analyst role is evolving into a new role due in part to the new technology of big data. The data scientist role has emerged because of the increase in breadth and depth of data being examined. In addition to computer science and analytical skills, a data scientist has a strong business sense and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[267,47],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-business-analyst","tag-data-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}