Many development organizations are already jumping on the big data bandwagon when it comes to hiring, according to Emmanuel Letouzé, director and co-founder of Data-Pop Alliance. They’re bringing on a few data scientists and putting them to work on pilot projects.
But this isn’t the most effective way to build data science into an organization, he told Devex at the Cartagena Data Festival last week, and it would be all too easy to lose this talent to Google or Facebook.
Rather than hiring for the sake of hiring, the development community needs to take a step back and first look at the current gaps in talent.
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