With South Africa to become home to the world's biggest data producer - the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope - the project's director says more local scientists will be needed to interpret the data. Once complete, the SKA telescope in the Karoo will produce data at a rate equivalent to all the internet traffic in the world.These huge data sets cannot be processed using traditional processing methods.Bernie Fanaroff, outgoing project director of the SKA, believes South Africa could lead the world in data science, which promises to become a trillion dollar industry."Big data will be one of the biggest economic developments in the next decade and is going to affect everything that we do," Fanaroff said yesterday at the Cape Town Science Centre.Fanaroff was at the centre, in Observatory, for the opening of a R1-million auditorium by Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor.The SKA has made 730 grants to students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the past 10 years and has created six university research chairs."We have enough [skilled people] for our immediate need," said Fanaroff.University of Cape Town data specialist Russ Taylor said the subjects required for studying data science were maths, computer science and statistics...