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WATCH U.S. FLY Big Data + Boeing = Breakthrough
By Stefan Karisch, Director of Analytics, Boeing Global Services
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Big Data + Boeing = Breakthrough
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Stefan E. Karisch
Watch U.S. Fly
www.watchusfly.com
Director of Analytics
Boeing Global Services
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he office space overlooking Boeing Field is often full of the quiet chatter of
Boeing employees. In front of a wall covered in bright graphics, several cowork-
ers stand together around a monitor, brainstorming solutions to a vexing issue re-
lated to processing large amounts of data. Since the completion of a collaboration
space on this floor a few years ago, the data scientists, software engineers and
other bright minds that support Boeing’s digital solutions and analytics portfolio
regularly band together to overcome technical challenges.