Data has never been more newsworthy

Talend users from Covanta and AutoZone provide insight into data management challenges amid growing data complexity at the Talend Connect virtual conference.

We’re back, and working remotely! For our first interview since the hiatus, Scott talks with Christal Bemont, the new CEO of Talend, about what it was like to take the role on just as COVID-19 began spreading around the world.

Data science was once dubbed the “sexiest job of the 21st century”. Yet, when you dissect the working day of a data scientist, it’s hard to see why. Results from a recent IDC study found that, on average, data professionals spend 67% of their time searching for and preparing data for analytics. When we put that into the context of an average working day in the UK, that’s almost five hours which is spent on data admin alone.

A female tech CEO really shouldn't be something that stands out for comment, but there's work to do to challenge the male-dominated 'elite' status quo.