ICT Skills: Business analytics skills in demand

Taking advantage of the data your business accumulates requires specific analytics skills, writes Aoife Valentine.

Laura Kennedy, head of data science at Next Generation Recruitment.

There is little you can do to prevent yourself contributing to the world's data supply, unless you plan on totally cutting yourself off from society. Whether you're constantly tapping away on your phone or even just passively moving around where there are cameras about, we're producing and releasing data about ourselves constantly.

Estimates from Sintef suggested last year that since 2011 we have produced 90 per cent of the data that we have ...