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The Australian Financial Review - Nick Abrahams: Data analytics is the place to be

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The article includes a summary of the corporate activity in Australia in recent years around data analytics or big data.

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Sydney partner Nick Abrahams discusses how deals are showing data analytics is the place to be. The following article was originally published by The Australian Financial Review and is reproduced with permission.

Deals show data analytics is the place to be as, data scientists rule the roost

A middle-aged neighbour in the 1967 film The Graduate tells an aimless college grad Dustin Hoffman that a viable future career would be in "One word: plastics". If the film was made today the line would be changed to "Two words: data analytics".

There has been a rash of reports released over the last year on the future of work. These predict dire consequences for most occupations except for being a "data scientist".

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