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There's an internship opportunity in Hadoop & Cloud (Big Data Analytics - Hive/Pig, Sqoop, Spark, AWS EMR). Interested freshers please send CV to [email protected]. You got to be a quick learner, someone with a hacking mindset, and a go-figurer.

If you are looking for a start on analytics as a career path, first decide whether you want to be on the IT side of it or the BA/Statistician side of it. The latter is a KPO route while the former is an upgraded path for a 'Data & Reporting Analyst'. More, by choosing the KPO route one can become a Data Scientist one day after a decade or so experience, while the IT side leads to a high-end data management expert with Hadoop and like in the skill set. This said, the KPO side is not everyone's cup of tea. But if you had a flair for math back in school then you will have a natural bent towards it. Here I mean 'math' not necessarily 'probability and statistics' MA201 course in your college..

Questions like whether to learn SAS or R sound silly after 2-3 years into practicing this 'sexy' profession. What matters then is the problem-solving skill and the tool is just a means. Imagine a civil engineer asking which software to use to design a 3000-meter span cable-stayed bridge! Relax...

Start with some easy to understand books like "Discovering Knowledge in Data - An Introduction to Data Mining by DANIEL T. LAROSE" and get the concepts right first, then use a tool to apply the concept and build your first 'hello world' model.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-09-19/news/54108999_1_data-scientists-amod-malviya-paytm

Data scientist among the sexiest jobs of the century NEW DELHI: The title has been around for less than a decade, but already 'data scientist' is considered to be among the sexiest jobs of the 21st century. In India it is no different. Data...

http://www.eweek.com/innovation/ieee-predicts-top-technologies-for-2022.html

IEEE Predicts Top Technologies for 2022 Machine learning, computational biology, bioinformatics, nanotechnology and the Internet of Things are on IEEE's list of top technologies for 2022.