By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
2017
- 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
- The worldwide big data market is projected to grow from $42 billion in 2018 to $103 billion in 2027.
- People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
- 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
- 21 percent of investment professionals use web traffic to derive data.
- 36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.
- Data warehouse optimization is considered the most important big data analytics use case, and is considered critical or very important by 70 percent of businesses.
- 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.
- 90 percent of IT professionals plan to increase spending on BI tools.
- 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
