Source – https://www.crn.com/ A deal to buy data analytics and data management leader SAS, a privately held company with annual sales around $3 billion, could be valued as high as $15 billion to $20 billion. Hardware and software infrastructure vendor Broadcom is in talks to acquire privately held business analytics and data management software giant Read More
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Source- https://news.vanderbilt.edu/ Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute has kicked off the third year of its undergraduate summer research program. The program engages students who are interested in carrying out data science-related research with a Vanderbilt faculty member and integrates them into the institute’s community of data science scholars. This year, the DSI awarded fellowships to 24 Read More
Source: info.umkc.edu Students looking to find a career in what Harvard Business Review describes as “the sexiest job of the 21st century” are in luck. UMKC is launching a new data science program to propel students further into data education with workshops designed to provide hands on research experience in the field. The Institute for Data Read More
Source: itproportal.com You see them all over city streets: pedestrians wearing headphones or earbuds – their faces glued to their phones as they stroll along oblivious to their surroundings. Known as “twalking,” the behavior is not without its dangers. Headphone-wearing pedestrians often can’t hear the auditory cues – horns, shouts, or the sound of approaching Read More
Source: richmond.com The University of Virginia has received state clearance for its data science school. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia last week gave final approval to the creation of UVA’s School of Data Science, eight months after the Charlottesville university received a $120 million donation for the creation for the school. “I Read More