By Kevin Kevany. Big things are happening in the fast-emerging, innovative world of 'Big Data' and New Zealand SMEs – particularly those servicing the public transport, housing, and health sectors, along with the general ICT world – are being invited to take a global leadership position and access it in manageable chunks via the recently launched Telecom specialist facilitator, Qrious. Along with this emerging Big Data phenomenon is the global emergence of a new kind of sought-after professional, the ‘data scientist’. Qrious is said to be built on “a powerful combination of information, insight and action”. It is committed to “delivering greater access to a smart data world, by providing a better way for New Zealand organisations to tap into