29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
2019
Source: The Hill
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.
- 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.
- 29 percent of investment professionals use expert networks to derive data.
- 59 percent of executives say big data at their company would be improved through artificial intelligence (AI).
- 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
- Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
- 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.
- 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
- Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
