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Thanks for the advice. I do work in Big Data (and have consulted) but perhaps I need to specialize further?

This post brings up 2 ideas:

1. Look into marketing or other areas where applied Machine Learning would make a direct impact to the bottom line. I'm guessing it's a lot easier to charge more if your value proposition is "increase sales/revenue by $X" vs. "increase the lift of this random model by Y%".

2.It might be worth looking into banks/hedge funds. They presumably are much more willing to throw large amounts of money at the right problems.



I think both seem like very valid ideas, though I have little knowledge regarding Big Data so I cannot tell you for sure.

It is still up and coming so I think there are large opportunities for those with enough knowledge how to handle Big Data. If you can visualize the data in a clear and coherent manner you should be able to make some big money :)

Best of luck!




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