The education vertical currently has the lowest adoption of big data among vertical industries, but educators are most likely to say they may use big data in the future.

2017

• By 2025, more than a quarter of all data created will be real-time, with 95% of that data generated by the Internet of Things.
• 40 percent of businesses say they need to manage unstructured data on a frequent basis.
• 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
• Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
• Businesses that use big data saw a 10 percent reduction in overall cost.
• More than 150 zettabytes (150 trillion gigabytes) of data will need analysis by 2025.
• 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
• 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.
• By 2025, 60% of the 163 zettabytes of existing data will be created and managed by enterprise organizations.
• The worldwide big data market is projected to grow from $42 billion in 2018 to $103 billion in 2027.