The ultimate goal of digital transformation through data science is to improve the organization. Whether the focus is on increasing revenue, lowering cost, increasing productivity, or launching new businesses, organizations have to move beyond gathering data.

It is your experience that you should leverage. If you used and analyzed data with tools such as Matlab to help boost ROI for the companies you worked for, you should have no problem finding a new job as data scientist. Many data scientists in Fintech are former physicists. You may have to learn programming languages such as R or Python if you don't know them already, but that is easy to learn. Some online classes from good universities can help you too (see here).

A conference in California next week says it aims to make scientific studies more reliable, but critics fear the event is a new tactic used by those who question the reality of climate change. The event, called Fixing Science, is being run by the National Association of Scholars (NAS), a non-profit organisation based in New York. The conference's programme focuses on the reproducibility crisis – the claim that science has an increasing problem with poorly performed or even fraudulent studies – with a portion dedicated to how …

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This public event will bring together the bio-based industries community and facilitate open discussion on the impact, achievements and strategic direction of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) programme, as well as the latest developments in the bio-based industries sector. Science Business is a media partner of this event.