By Katharina Zech, WiBD Contributor Did you know that a total of 97% of collected data is currently unused? Still, within two days we amass so much data that, if pressed on DVDs, they would cover Luxembourg. Amazing, right? What percentage of the collected data is actually being used in your institution? Thanks to easy
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14 May 2019, Naomi Molefe, Chapter Chair The South African chapter is the first African Women in Big Data chapter to launch. Here is a summary of the activities we have contributed to in the last few weeks. March 18th – SAPNexGen hosted a WiDS event in partnership with Stanford University. WiBDSA was invited as
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By Sally Keys (Sally Writes – sally@diamondmail.net) Research shows that women are 11% better when it comes to digital skills, including search, email, social media, digital strategy, planning, mobile, and big data, yet they make up less than one-third of the digital marketing workforce. Women may be better at giving personalized content, which is in high demand
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Sunnyvale, California On March 8, 2019, Pluto7, Google Cloud, and Women in Big Data teams hosted a meaningful afternoon full of conversations around how empowering female leadership often leads to innovation in the tech space. By gathering on International Women’s Day, we celebrated our achievements in tech and discussed ways to continue making great contributions.
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Women in Big Data Alberta (Edmonton) Canada Chapter We are excited to report WiBD Alberta (Edmonton) hosted its first meetup on April 11, 2019 at Startup Edmonton. This was an opportunity to get engaged from the inception of the chapter and to help shape what it will be. The meeting was attended by a group of
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Hosted our first 2019 Women in Big Data meetup on April 12 at the Tecnopuc Technological and Scientific Park – Porto Alegre – RS – Brazil ! We are so glad that once again we’ve had full attendance, and this meant a lot to us. The agenda was prepared with our goal of Diving into Big Data
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The gaming industry was projected to hit $135 billion dollars in 2018, according to the findings of GamesIndustry.biz. With massive revenues to be earned, it only made sense women leaders in the gaming sector, like Celine Holzmann of Namco Bandai, would start to pay attention to the enormous amount of information compiled and analyzed. This led big game
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Questions and answers on the latest training from Cisco and WiBD! What is this great training opportunity? Cisco Networking Academy is inviting a limited number of Women in Big Data members to high-quality, fifty-hour online training offerings on Big Data and Analytics with a focus on the Internet of Things. Members who successfully complete the
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Women in Big Data Munich Chapter hosted an afterwork event at Globe Business College Munich. Located in Munich city center, the college offers a relationship- based model education. After a brief introduction from Astrid Neumann and Nahia Orduña about Women in Big Data, Dr. Susan Walsh, Founder and Director of Globe Business College, presented her vision on developing and
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Paris is the first WiBD EMEA chapter and the “headquarters” site of Women in Big Data Europe. Here is a summary of the activities we have hosted in the last few months, and some highlights for future plans. March, 2019: WiBD held a cocktail party at Big Data Paris, an annual event that hosts Big
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