DataScientists are key to digitalisation, but challenges emerge, says study ~
Digital transformation has accelerated significantly due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the extra demands on data scientists have revealed significant barriers to effective working and high levels of job dissatisfaction in some areas.
To delve deeper into the state of data science, the report assesses the impact of the pandemic, challenges faced, overall satisfaction with the analytics environment and more. The research showed the pandemic upended standard business practices, shifting the assumptions and variables in models and predictive algorithms and causing a ripple effect of adaptations in processes, practices and operating parameters.
“There have clearly been more demands placed on data scientists as the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation projects that many organisations were planning anyway,” says Dr Iain Brown, head of data science at SAS UK and Ireland. “A major source of frustration is finding a way for organisations to implement the insights from analytics projects and use them in their decision making, which means giving data scientists a seat at the boardroom table might be a way forward.
When it comes to the challenges identified to ensure fair and unbiased decision making, industry expert Dr Sally Eaves says: “Data scientists can lend their expertise to craft working guidelines for data access, usage security, and broader issues, such as sustainability and data ethics and bias.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Market data — March 28 2022Market data including bonds and fuel prices
Read more »
Government data must stay in South Africa, says state technology executiveGovernment data must stay in South Africa, says state technology executive: Data sovereignty is a key priority for governments and other entities as they migrate to public cloud services
Read more »
Government data must stay in South Africa, says state technology executiveGovernment data must stay in South Africa, says state technology executive - Data sovereignty is a key priority for governments and other entities as they migrate to public cloud services
Read more »
How bank customers can protect themselves after hackers leak TransUnion dataAt least 3 million TransUnion clients are affected by the N4ughtySec data breach. Here is how you can protect yourself after the hackers leaked the data.
Read more »
TransUnion: 3 million South Africans affected by massive data hackTransUnion: 3 million South Africans affected by massive data hack South Africa's largest credit bureau, TransUnion confirmed that data of at least 3 million South Africans was captured during the data hack.
Read more »
TransUnion says at least three million people affected by data breachCredit bureau TransUnion SA has confirmed that at least three million consumers are affected by a data breach orchestrated by a “criminal third party” which gained access to a server “through misuse of an authorised client’s credentials”.
Read more »