Big data is a big deal for the Obama administration, which said Thursday it has hired one of Silicon Valley’s top data scientists.
DJ Patil, formerly of LinkedIn and RelateIQ, a subsidiary of Salesforce, now serves as chief data scientist in residence for the White House. He’ll focus on health-care data, said John Podesta, counselor to the president, during a Feb. 5 press call about the administration’s recent big data efforts.
Patil’s hiring was announced alongside the release of Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values, a White House progress report on big data and privacy in the federal government. Patil is often credited with coining the term “data scientist” — in 2012, he co-authored a Harvard Business Review article in which he called data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century. The article, as Gigaom reported, helped “spark a hiring frenzy of people with an understanding of data analysis, systems and business concerns.”
Big data is a big deal for the Obama administration, which said Thursday it has hired one of Silicon Valley’s top data scientists.
DJ Patil, formerly of LinkedIn and RelateIQ, a subsidiary of Salesforce, now serves as chief data scientist in residence for the White House. He’ll focus on health-care data, said John Podesta, counselor to the president, during a Feb. 5 press call about the administration’s recent big data efforts.
Patil’s hiring was announced alongside the release of Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values, a White House progress report on big data and privacy in the federal government. Patil is often credited with coining the term “data scientist” — in 2012, he co-authored a Harvard Business Review article in which he called data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century. The article, as Gigaom reported, helped “spark a hiring frenzy of people with an understanding of data analysis, systems and business concerns.”
This staff report was originally published by Government Technology.
