What goes into the making of a good data scientist

THESE days, it is not just the banks, telecommunications service providers as well as Internet and digital marketing companies that are extracting value out of data, according to Pivotal, a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

Pivotal provides application and data infrastructure software, agile development services and data science consulting. It currently employs some 30 data scientists worldwide, six of whom are based in the Asia-Pacific region, with three of them in Singapore.

Apart from the private sector, the company is also applying Big Data analytics to public-sector use in the Asia-Pacific.