Everywhere you turn these days there are headlines about the rise of big data and how predictive analytics will usher in a new era of corporate innovation, one that upends the norms for how companies interact with their customers.

According to Bloomberg News, data scientists are in such high demand that they’re commanding salaries upwards of $200,000. The article quotes a McKinsey study projecting that “by 2018, the U.S. alone may face a 50 percent to 60 percent gap between supply and requisite demand of deep analytic talent.”

Source: information-management.com
Author: Simon Owens