Training of specialists in Big Data Analytics

The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar have signed a collaboration agreement with the aim to encourage the training of professionals capable of analyzing large volumes of data under the new paradigm analytics big data and can meet current demand and future of this new discipline.

The agreement provides that the Cajamar Group becomes part of the Business Council of the Master in Big Data Analytics UPV, and actively participate in shaping and adapting the curriculum and in the lecture series bringing the perspective of the financial world .

The Master will start on September 9 and will end on 22 July 2017 with a schedule Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, with the aim of facilitating the assistance of professionals. The number of places is limited to 28 and registration can be accessed from the website of the Master (http://bigdata.inf.upv.es).

Big Data: the era of data

The spread of new technologies related to management, storage, processing, debugging, visualization and analysis of large volumes of data is such that companies have serious difficulties in finding specialists able to work effectively in this field.

This is one of the reasons why the European Commission has decided to include in the Digital Agenda for Europe to encourage the development of these new technologies through the Big Data Value Association (http://bdva.eu) which is part of the UPV. In this sense, and in its role of academic institution, the university took the initiative to offer training in Big Data Analytics. The definition of Big Data could be summarized as the development of new hardware and software technologies to manage large volumes of data and to analyze them in order to obtain relevant information to better interpret reality and make decisions based on the results obtained.

Source: Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar