Abstract:There is currently a shortage of graduates with the necessary skills for jobs in data analytics and “Big Data”. Recently many new university degrees have been created to address the skills gap, but they are mostly computer science based with little coverage of statistics. In this chapter, the perceptions of graduates and academics about the types of expertise and the types of software skills required for this field are documented based on two online surveys in Australia and New Zealand. The results showed that… Show more
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