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GUEST OPINION by Peter O’Connor, Vice President – Sales, Asia Pacific, Snowflake:  As the amount of digital data in the world continues to grow exponentially, extracting meaning from it is becoming an increasingly challenging task.

Professional services firm Deloitte Australia has launched its new AI Institute.

GUEST OPINION by Brad Newton, ANZ Managing Director at Cohesity: In an era where the pace of technological change continues to increase, one factor remains constant: data is the key ingredient for a digital business.

Analytics firm SAS Australia has joined forces with the CSIRO Data61’s job matching and internship matching platform Ribit to extend its long-standing practice of helping analytics students gain meaningful employment as data scientists.

Curtin University has launched a new Cryptocurrency PhD Scholarship Fund, designed by Curtin data scientists, which will enable companies and individuals to donate cryptocurrency to fund PhD students in the areas of blockchain, cyber security and data analytics.

Data scientists, data engineers and data analysts are in hot demand in Australia, topping the list of IT skills shortfalls for the first half of 2019, according to a new report on the jobs market.

DataRobot is data science on steroids, a company built by data scientists with a "world-class automated machine learning platform to jumpstart your transformation to an AI-driven enterprise".

Not-for-profit website builder The Institute of Technology for Australia and New Zealand (TITAN) has launched its Website Build and Match Fund Grant, giving not-for-profit organisations the opportunity to apply for a free new website build and receive tailored guidance and support from a diverse team of professionals.

James Cook University in North Queensland is claiming an Australian-first offering of fully-online training as a data scientist.

A new training college for data analysts and scientists has launched in Sydney with the opening of a local branch of the London Data School founded in 2015.

Australian artificial intelligence start-up Daisee has filled its coffers with $8.8 million from a Series A funding round, with the funds to be used to fuel future growth.

Experienced data scientists are a rare commodity and organisations should snap them up when they find them, according to a person familiar with the field.

We’re in the era of the skills economy. This is an unprecedented time where skilled professionals, especially IT professionals, are in high demand and highly valued if we are to build the industries of the future.

Tibco is aiming to help more people become citizen data scientists even though "most real data scientists hate this term", according to senior product manager Tim Alexander (pictured).

Splunk announced this week its machine learning toolkit, as well as practical applications of this, built into its new IT Service Intelligence product.

Email hosting provider FastMail has acquired the IC Group of companies comprising email services businesses Pobox and Listbox.

Mobile in all its forms is the place to be if you are seeking a job and career in an industry sector which is growing rapidly and needs employees with the appropriate tech skills to drive that growth.

The use of big data and data analytics is pervading Australian businesses at a rapid rate, and is now used by many CEOs and boards to drive the innovation agenda.

The jobs outlook for ICT professionals is strengthening month to month as both government and private sector employers express confidence in the year ahead.