By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.

2017

• 21 percent of investment professionals use web traffic to derive data.
• By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
• 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
• Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
• 53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.
• Businesses that use big data saw a 10 percent reduction in overall cost.
• 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
• Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
• People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
• 8 percent of businesses say data and analytics have fundamentally changed the nature of industry-wide competition