Big data is not a fad

Big data is a revolution

More data has been created in the past 2 years than the entire history of

human existence

By 2020, 1.7 megabytes of data will be created by every person on the planet…

every second

By then the totality of created data will be

44 trillion gigabytes

44,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

That number is

If you burned all the data created daily on to DVDs you could stack them high enough to reach the moon… twice

The boom of the Internet of Things means 50 billion connected devices by 2020

5 for each man, woman and child on the planet

Integrating big data into healthcare could save up to $300 billion per year in the U.S. or…

$1,000 each year for every person in the country

Retailers who fully utilize the power of big data could grow their operating margins by as much as

60%

The amount of data collected and stored by companies doubles every 1.2 years

73% of organizations have already invested or plan to invest in big data

99% of C-level executives said analysis of big data was important to their strategy next year

Companies will spend $114 billion in big data projects by 2018 but…

Only 27% of executives describe their big data projects as successful

61% of CMOs admit they have a long way to go in using big data properly

“Big data” only represents about 10% of data available to companies, the other 90% of digital information is unstructured

By 2018, the number of data science jobs in the U.S. will exceed 490,000

There will be fewer than 200,000 qualified workers to fill these positions

Globally, demand for data scientists is projected to exceed supply by more than 50% by 2018

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