on informatics

job announcement hints at scope: ...Department of Informatics with emphasis on teaching telecommunications law and policy courses to networking, web design, information assurance and media studies undergraduate and graduate students.

Job Description
Full time tenure track position in the Department of Informatics with emphasis on teaching telecommunications law and policy courses to networking, web design, information assurance and media studies undergraduate and graduate students. The preferred candidate for this position will have professional as well as teaching experience in law and policy areas including but not limited to: state and federal legislation, state and federal regulation, intellectual property, and business transactions in cyberspace, cybercrime, competition and economic policy, universal service, and an understanding of constitutional considerations for freedom of speech, search and seizure, and privacy as related to society’s interaction with networks and cyberspace.

By comparison, here is Wikipedia on INFORMATICS

• Computer science, the study of complex systems, information and computation using applied mathematics, electrical engineering and software engineering techniques.
• Information science, the study of the processing, management, and retrieval of information
• Informatics (academic field), a broad academic field encompassing human-computer interaction, information science, information technology, algorithms, areas of mathematics (especially mathematical logic and category theory), and social sciences that are involved
• Informatics engineering
• Information technology, the study, design, development, implementation, support, or management of computer-based information systems
  • Archival informatics
  • Bioinformatics
    • Bioimage informatics
  • Biodiversity informatics
  • Business informatics
  • Cheminformatics
  • Community informatics
  • Computational informatics
  • Development informatics
  • Disease informatics
  • Ecoinformatics
  • Education informatics
  • Engineering Informatics
  • Environmental informatics
  • Evolutionary informatics
  • Forest informatics
  • Geoinformatics
  • Health informatics
    • Consumer health informatics
    • Imaging informatics
    • Public health informatics
  • Hydroinformatics
  • Irrigation informatics
  • Laboratory informatics
  • Legal informatics
  • Materials informatics
  • Medical informatics
  • Music informatics
  • Neuroinformatics
  • Pervasive Informatics
  • Social informatics
  • Technical informatics
  • Translational research informatics

data points & future outlined

Data biz, 

 [excerpt from http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162397787/predicting-the-future-fantasy-or-a-good-algorithm]

After failing to predict the Arab Spring, intelligence officials are now exploring whether Big Data, the combing of billions of pieces of disparate electronic information, can help them identify hot spots before they explode. The intelligence community has always been in the business of forecasting the future. The question is whether tapping into publicly available data — Twitter and news feeds and blogs among other things — can help them do that faster and more precisely.

Enter a Swedish-American start-up company called Recorded Future. The company has developed algorithms that chew through huge volumes of information to find relationships between people and organizations. Then its visualization software spits out that information in the form of a giant searchable timeline....

job blurb "data warehouse"

DATA WAREHOUSE FUNCTIONAL ANALYST/FINANCIALS  

Home Department =Application Support & Dev - OIT  

Position Summary:

The Data Warehouse Functional Analyst's role is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of data warehouse users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements for the design and implementation of financial reports and visualizations. The Data Warehouse Functional Analyst assists or leads data modeling and ETL initiatives of financial data. This includes gathering data requirements, developing and maintaining ETL processes and dimensional data models, and promoting best practices in data warehousing to the organization.

This position focuses on the delivery of business intelligence solutions including: dashboards, scorecards, reports, user interfaces, and associated database design and data structures using Microsoft and SAP technologies, applications and tools.

The individual will apply proven communication skills, problem solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to guide the development team on issues related to design, development and deployment of CMU Core and mission-critical software systems.  

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science, Mathematics or Information Systems) or equivalent
Two years experience working with a leading ERP platform
Familiarity with Enterprise Financial modules
Demonstrated experience gathering requirements
Excellent technical aptitude
Excellent communication (oral/written) skills with respect to team members, peers, and staff at all levels of the organization.
Ability to concisely, logically, and accurately present issues verbally and in written format.
Strong problem-solving skills
Good interpersonal skills that can foster, demonstrate, and promote excellence in a team environment.
Reliable, self-motivated, and focused on high quality delivery of work products; willing to accept responsibility and accountability  

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Project Management
Experience gathering requirements for complex systems
Experience with SAP ERP, preferably within the FI module
Experience with ETL process
Experience with Microsoft Integration Services and Reporting Services
Experience with Microsoft SharePoint
Knowledge of University reporting needs
Extensive programming experience
Strong preference for data warehousing experience
Strong preference for dashboard development Experience