By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
2017
- 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
- 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.
- 14 percent of investment professionals use credit card and POS software data to derive data.
- 79 percent of enterprise executives say that not embracing big data will cause companies to lose competitive position and risk extinction.
- Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
- The big data industry will be worth an estimated $77 billion by 2023.
- Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
- The number of IT professionals using descriptive and predictive analytics grew from the mid-40th percentile to high 60th percentile between January 2018 and January 2019.
