Booz Allen’s top data guy: the best data science teams are like jazz quartets
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When folks hear think data scientists, they usually envision of stats and computer science geeks. And those skills are important, but for Josh Sullivan, VP of strategic innovation at Booz Allen Hamilton its equally if not critical to find people with huge intellectual curiosity regardless of their field of expertise. One of his best hires was a guy with a graduate degree in forest management. Hear more from Sullivan on how to build a super-star team.
But first, Derrick Harris and I talk about NoSQL fan favorite MongoDB’s $150 million in new funding, Verizon’s sparkly new cloud, and Microsoft’s decision to use its enterprise mojo to push the Windows Azure cloud.
Bonus: The MIT Media Lab tour starring … robots!
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