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• 20 on 2020 - IT leaders dish out predictions

  Twenty IT leaders look into their crystal balls to predict the technologies and trends that will drive the sector in 2020.

• SAS’s CEO-in-waiting lays out company's AI-driven future

  The CEO-in-waiting of analytics software firm SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has set out the company’s strategy to help clients bring more automation to their data science and AI efforts, at an event in Sydney this morning.

• AI firm takes ‘Quantium’ leap in hyperconverged data space

  Over three years into the role and Quantium IT director, Craig Taylor, says he hasn’t got comfortable - and that’s a good thing considering the state of flux and constant change in the IT industry. In particular, the data science and AI realm that Taylor lives and breathes.

• Rambo and the machine learning models helping Sportsbet up its games

  ​A Netflix-style recommendation engine on steroids, a Google AdWords beater and a souped-up game simulator are among a number of machine learning models at work behind the scenes at online bookmaker Sportsbet, the company has revealed.

• AI jobs market heats up, listings and searches on the rise

  The number of artificial intelligence related jobs listed on Australian jobsite Indeed has doubled since 2015, according to data released today by the company.

• Bloomberg's big move on machine learning and open source

  The company's head of data science, Gideon Mann, talks about the work behind 'The Terminal'.

• Catholic Education Western Australia to apply data science to school life

  In industry there are countless examples of how data analytics have helped businesses gain insights into their operations, in order to find efficiencies, increase productivity and improve the experience of their customers.

• Victorian chief data officer job highlights changing IT needs

  The Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet's move to recruit its first-ever chief data officer illustrates the changing place of data in today's enterprise IT mix.

• Where are technology skills heading in 2016?

  Next year will see increased demand for user experience, data science and cyber security skills, with non-traditional forms of education gaining traction in the market, according to analysts.

• Where is data analytics heading in 2016?

  Companies doing data analytics next year will focus on refining data, move away from filling huge data warehouses, and start using external sources to gain richer insights, according to analysts.

• Data science to help move natural science out of the 'Stone Age'

  The science community is in the Stone Age and needs the help of data scientists to transform it, says Hugh Durrant-Whyte, former CEO of NICTA.

• Data scientists: Question the integrity of your data

  If there’s one lesson website traffic data can teach you, it’s that information is not always genuine. Yet, companies still base major decisions on this type of data without questioning its integrity.

• UTS Data Arena: How raw data transforms into 3D, 360-degree visualisation

  To help researchers and data scientists intuintively explore huge and complex data in great detail, a couple of software developers from UTS built a 3D, 360-degree data visualisation room.

• How eHarmony uses data science for matchmaking

  There have been 11,000 marriages as a result of people meeting on eHarmony Australia since its launch in 2007. So how does the company help to bring couples together?

• EMC tackles Big Data, Cloud skills gap among IT business leaders

  Many organisations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and Cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers.