Dai Big Data alla Data Science. Sfide e professioni nascenti nell'era dei grandi dati | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

[From Google Translate] From Big Data to Data Science. Emerging challenges and professions in the age of big data National Research Council

The CNR [Italian National Research Council] organizes a scientific day for 300 students of the last years of the Augusto Righi High School in Rome, valid as a formative credit for school / work alternation and, for their teachers of Science, as professional updating.

Recent technological advances in various fields of knowledge and the digital revolution are generating an immense and growing amount of data on the web. This poses ever more pressing challenges and questions on how to conserve, manage, use, reuse and filter the "Big Data", in order to extract knowledge and lay the foundations for new discoveries. It is an information revolution that is rapidly transforming scientific research and the whole of society, which increasingly need new professionals with transversal skills and responsibilities of a scientific, social and ethical nature.