Finding the Face of Your Data 

There’s been an explosion in data assets

Growth of the “digital universe”1 Data overload in context2

40,000 1 EB = 1 billion gigabytes x70 30,000

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10,000

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IDC estimates that “tagged” information accounts for only about 3% The amount of information generated by humanity during the first of the digital universe, with analyzed information at 0.5%. The value day of a baby’s life today is equivalent to 70 times the information of technology lies in exploring the “untapped pools.” contained in the Library of Congress.

Enterprise expectations are as big as the data

Big data spending forecast by component3

50 Compute 31% CAGR Storage 40 Networking

30 Infrastructure Software

SQL Database Software

20 NoSQL Database Software

Application Software 10 Professional Services Billion Dollars Xaas

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

According to a Wikibon study, big data spend will shift from infrastructure and middleware to value-add services and software during the next five years. Infrastructure, middleware, and technical services will likely become increasingly commoditized as they mature and common standards are adopted. We also note that this study did not include the costs associated with the business and domain experts’ time – a critical element of actionable insight.

Taking advantage of data requires new tools ...

Traditional and non-traditional value in data

Data diving Pattern finding In taking advantage of new data assets – The other side of that same coin, from internal, external, structured, and seeking and patterning for previously unstructured data – and analytics tools, unasked and unanswerable questions, the most common form of value is realized is less common, but potentially more through exploiting deeper detail for new important to the enterprise. and better answers to current questions.

Expanding the data analytics toolbox NoSQL market4

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3 21% CAGR

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Visualization Natural language Billion processing dollars

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

The worldwide NoSQL market is expected to reach $3.4 billion by 2018. The market has shifted from community- to application-driven as venture capital funding, mergers, and product offerings increase.

5 Ontology discovery Machine learning Hadoop & MapReduce ecosystem software market

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750 60.2% CAGR

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Quantitative modeling Text analytics Million dollars

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

In order to extract both types of value from data, new techniques and An IDC forecast taking into account software, maintenance, and tools are likely required. They may sound esoteric and academic, but software-as-a-service revenue predicts the Hadoop and MapReduce they are enterprise-caliber and now fundamental. ecosystem software market will reach almost $813 million by 2016. However, other experts say this estimate is conservative, underestimating growth in cloud-based offerings and not fully considering all the positive externalities – that “every sale made, fraud thwarted or page view generated thanks to Hadoop means a healthier economy.”

... As well as new team members with specialized skillsets

Google Trends: Searches for “data scientist”6 LinkedIn: Analytics & data science job growth7

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80 0.08

60 0.06

40 0.04

20 0.02 Search Percentage of interest job starters January 2011 July 2013 1990 2010

Using these new tools and techniques may require skills such as data science, creative design, and cultural anthropology, which you may not already have in the enterprise. New team members with these capabilities should represent a blend of technology and business domain expertise. The new job title with the most fanfare has been the data scientist.

A profile of 12 leading data scientists

Letters represent individuals, colors represent current titles, circle size represents number of individuals.

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Chemistry Business Computer & Physics science

Harvard Business Review recently called the data scientist the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.”8 But, finding data scientists and data professionals with both IT and line-of-business knowledge can be difficult. The diagram above shows the career paths, industries, and educational backgrounds of 12 leading data professionals aggregated with publicly available social network information.

BOTTOM LINE The right balance of people, data, and computing power can reveal questions that previously couldn’t be answered – or even asked – to enhance data-driven business decisions and actions on insights

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SOURCES 1 IDC, “The Digital Universe in 2020: Big Data, Bigger Digital Shadows, and Biggest Growth in the Far East,” December 2012. 2 Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, The Human Face of Big Data (Against All Odds Productions, 2012). 3 Kelly, J. Big Data Market Forecast by Component. Retrieved July 31, 2013, from http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/ Big_Data_Vendor_Revenue_and_Market_Forecast_2012-2017. 4 NoSQL Market Forecast 2013-2018, http://www.marketresearchmedia.com/?p=568 (September 11, 2012). 5 Derrick Harris, All aboard the Hadoop money train, http://gigaom.com/2012/05/07/all-aboard-the-hadoop-money-train (May 7, 2012). 6 Trends, http://www.google.com/trends, accessed August 7, 2013. 7 Gil Press, A Very Short History Of Data Science, http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/05/28/a-very-short-history-of-data-science (May 28, 2013). 8 Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil, Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century, http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century (October 2012).

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