Job List 6 – IDEAS Southern California Conference 2018

Author: Zihuan Tang

The coming conference in Oct is about 3000 attendees in Los Angeles Convention Center. Healthcare and data science are the hot topics in the conference. Here is the conference page: http://bit.ly/2pk3AIj. 

Data Science in healthcare is supposed to provide rigorous quantitative training and essential statistical and computing skills necessary to manage and analyze health science data to address important questions in public health and biomedical sciences.

With about 1.2 billion clinical documents being produced in the United States annually, doctors and scientists have a wealth of data to promote their research. Additionally, large amounts of health-related information are made accessible through widespread adoption of wearable computing technology, which opens up new opportunities for better, more informed healthcare.

According to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, the United States alone could face a shortage of 1.5 million managers and analysts with the knowledge of how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions by 2018. 

A business analyst is an expert who has the skills and knowledge in both business  analytics and data sciences, and understands the business needs and IT resources. Successful business analysts have multiple roles, such as to be clear communicators, smooth facilitators, precise analyzers, and team players. Also, the ideal analyst has the versatility of various business functions, such as operations, finance, engineering, technology or architecture.