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10 Free Resources To Become A Health Data Scientist

Becoming a health data scientist can be challenging, but it is an incredibly rewarding career choice. The rapidly growing field of health data science merges statistical analysis, data visualization, and machine learning to gain insights from healthcare data. However, becoming a health data scientist can be costly. In this article, I present a wide range of resources, such as online courses, textbooks, and tutorials, that are available to help you acquire the necessary skills to become a health data scientist. Whether you are a beginner or just looking to deepen your understanding of health data science, these resources will provide…

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New IBM Survey Reveals The Greatest Perceived Barrier To Professional Or Technical Skill Development Is That Programs Are Too Expensive

– As global respondents look to change jobs in the next 12 months, awareness of career and training options is low – To tackle these misconceptions and bring STEM education closer to underrepresented communities, IBM is adding 45 IBM SkillsBuild collaborations around the world ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Job seekers, students, and career changers around the world want to pursue roles related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across different industries, but say they are not familiar with career options. At the same time, online training and digital credentials are emerging as a recognized pathway to opportunity as…

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12 No-Cost Ways To Learn Google Cloud Over The Holidays

The holiday season is upon us! If you are making your list and checking it twice, we’ve got a few learning gifts you can tick off the list and share with others too. For the season of giving, we’ve wrapped up some of our most popular training and certification opportunities and made them available at no-cost. This December we’re aiming to offer something for everyone, whether you’re just getting started with cloud, or knee deep in preparing for a professional certification exam. Start with the fundamentals to gain a deeper understanding of cloud whether you’re in a business or technical…

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Cloud Skill Boost Preparation For GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

A GCP Associate Cloud Engineer requires broad knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform. There is a large range of things to study, and while it may not need a deep level of practice, a good amount of hands-on experience is still recommended. The exam might not be hands-on or laboratory-based (as of now). Accomplishing the following will certainly improve your skills. If you have Cloud Skill Boost account and subscriptions here are some of the Quest, Course and Lab that can be taken to study for the exam: Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure [Course] Create and Manage Cloud…

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Samsung Upskills Their Big Data Center Teams To Transform Business

Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of smartphones, TV’s, home appliances and electronic devices, recently launched their Big Data Center (BDC) to improve the use of big data in development, marketing, and product sales. Samsung also focused on maximizing the value of their existing data by creating a data hub platform to harness and streamline big data resources enabling a boost in their internal analysis and forecasting capabilities. These initiatives all support Samsung’s long-term transformation goal to become a data-driven organization where data drives actionable decisions. Due to Covid-19 impacts, BDC employees had limited in-person training and learning…

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Discover Why Leaders Need To Upskill Teams In ML, AI And Data

Tech companies are ramping up the search for highly skilled data analytics, AI and ML professionals, with the race to AI accelerating the crunch.1 They are looking for cloud experts who can successfully build, test, run, and manage complex tools and infrastructure, in roles such as data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers. This workforce takes vast amounts of data and puts it to work solving top business challenges, including customer satisfaction, production quality and operational efficiency. Learn about the business impact of data analytics, ML and AI skills Find out how Google Cloud ML, AI and data…

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How Wayfair Partnered With Google Cloud To Upskill Their Engineers

Over the past ten years, Wayfair, an online furniture and home goods retailer, experienced exceptional growth, with online shoppers engagement (i.e., website, app). This surge in traffic and revenue generation was supported by the decision to engage Google Cloud services. About 4 years ago, Wayfair realized the need for increased elasticity to handle traffic spikes, yet also recognized that the solution needed to be cost-effective. The strategy included removing Wayfair Storefront systems from existing private data centers– already proven to be expensive to scale, and included sustained risk of under-provisioning for traffic spikes—to move those complex systems to the public…

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Partnering With The State Of Oregon To Support A Skilled Tech Workforce

The State of Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon organization defines themselves with a simple mission: “Support Business – Promote Employment.” Oregon jobseekers work with WorkSource to create a career plan by setting job and career goals, enrolling in trainings and workshops, and searching and applying for jobs. To support this mission, in August 2021, Oregon partnered with Grow with Google and the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) to launch the Google Career Certificates for those seeking employment in Oregon, offering 500 scholarships as a pilot. Each scholarship enables a jobseeker to pursue no-cost certificates that provide them with…

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Partnering With Malaysia’s Universities To Prepare Students For A Cloud-First World

As part of Google’s skills programs around the world, Google recently launchedGemilang, its new digital training programme in Malaysia, that offers flexible learning paths for all Malaysians. This includes the Google Cloud Skills pathway, which is available to higher education students, thanks to our partnerships with local universities such as UNITEN. Gemilang helps learners develop knowledge and acquire digital skills for in-demand jobs. Additionally, to support Google’s mission of advancing Malaysia together through an equitable and inclusive digital economy, Google is offering 31,000 scholarships for Google Career Certificates through local partners, comprising education institutions, industry partners and nonprofits. Google Cloud…

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Collegis Partners With Google Cloud To Unlock Value In Higher Education Data

Data can be powerful—but only if it’s able to tell you something insightful and actionable. Higher education institutions suffer from a silo problem: they have enormous amounts of data, but it resides in systems that are disconnected from one another, thus hindering the potential impact. While institutions have talented IT teams, they typically don’t have the time or resources to integrate this data, use it to inform their school’s critical decisions, or to make it actionable.To help bring siloed data together across an institution’s systems, Collegis Education is partnering with Google Cloud to provide managed services to collect, connect, and…

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