H. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE ARE THE GREATEST CHALLENGES FACING THE SECTOR OR INDUSTRY YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPECIALIZE IN AT IE? WHAT

ROLE DO YOU HOPE TO BE ABLE TO PLAY IN THIS SECTOR OR INDUSTRY IN THE MEDIUM TERM?

JUAN PABLO ANZOLA PINZÓN

OUTLINE

What is Big Data?Big Data TransversalityChallenges Long Hard Road out of Hell…My role

WHAT IS BIG DATA?

WHAT IS BIG DATA?

Honestly, it’s a Buzzword.Formally related to apply

statistical techniques to a massive amount of Data. Albeit, there’s not consensus

about a proper name.

WHAT IS BIG DATA? According to the Master’s outline,

it’s not about Big Data but rather what’s useful for today’s businesses. It’s about learn statistic techniques

that will help understand and discover patters, differences, correlations and validate if it is possible to do something with them or not.

According to the figure, the main difference between Big Data and Data Mining is about the size of the Data Bases. That will depend on the Business nature and Data Collection.

Source: http://www.solvistas.com/de/news/archiv-2014/data-mining-und-big-data-vs-statistik-und-predictive-analytics/

BIG DATA TRANSVERSALITY

BIG DATA TRANSVERSALITY Across

Applications

Across Industries

High Fertility Models

BIG DATA TRANSVERSALITY

CHALLENGES

“THE 2016 DATA & ANALYTICS REPORT BY MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW AND SAS FINDS THAT

ANALYTICS IS NOW A MAINSTREAM IDEA, BUT NOT A

MAINSTREAM PRACTICE.”

Source: MIT, “Beyond the hype: The hard work behind analytics success”http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/the-hard-work-behind-data-analytics-strategy/

“FEW COMPANIES HAVE A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ANALYTICS OR ARE EXECUTING

A STRATEGY FOR WHAT THEY HOPE TO ACHIEVE WITH ANALYTICS.

ORGANIZATIONS ACHIEVING THE GREATEST BENEFITS FROM ANALYTICS ENSURE THE

RIGHT DATA IS BEING CAPTURED, AND BLEND INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE IN MAKING

DECISIONS.”Source: MIT, “Beyond the hype: The hard work behind analytics success”http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/the-hard-work-behind-data-analytics-strategy/

CHALLENGES

The % believing that Business Analytics creates a competitive advantage for their organization is declining. There’s still plenty optimism,

but there have been unrealistic expectations and technical challenges for businesses.

Source: MIT, “Beyond the hype: The hard work behind analytics success”http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/the-hard-work-behind-data-analytics-strategy/

CHALLENGES IN COLOMBIA Specifically in Colombia,

there’s a lack of talent able to fulfil most basic positions related with Big Data in Business.

And honestly, we haven’t truly started to implement real Data Science, precisely because of this knowledge gap.

LONG HARD ROAD OUT OF HELL…Big Data is not

easy, and even though most people know about the “Beer and Diaper” story, most can’t find useful insights for their own Business.

Source: Gartner’s 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies

UPCOMING CHALLENGE

MAKE IT ACCESIBLE!!

Big Data is not easy and there’s a big technical gap to fulfil roles that can complete tasks related with this topic.

But there’s still a big problem: you can’t make everyone an expert; you need to make it useful for the Business, in its own terms.

MY ROLE: Help business cross the bridge. Closing the gap between technical knowledge and business usefulness.

At the end, it’s all about this…

QUESTIONS?

JUAN_P_ANZOLA2@HOTMAIL.COM