Josette Rigsby reports that a recent Jaspersoft study supports the general consensus that there is currently a major lack of skilled Data Scientists. She writes, “Business intelligence platform provider Jaspersoft has released a new survey that examines how companies across the globe are using big data analytics. Although many studies indicate the challenge of managing rapidly growing data volumes paralyzes many companies into inaction, Jaspersoft’s research tells a different story. The data shows 62 percent of respondents plan to implement big data solutions in the next twelve months.  Jaspersoft’s new big data survey includes 631 respondents from the company’s user community. The survey includes respondents from more than fifteen countries that are primarily employed by companies with less than US$ 10M in revenue (30 percent).”

She notes, “Given all of the data that suggests big data can yield enormous business benefits, why are 38 percent of the companies represented choosing not to invest in big data? Respondents cited multiple reasons, but the most prevalent response (37 percent) was that their organization only had structured relational data. The second most popular answer, 35 percent of responses, was that the organization did not understand what big data is. Other studies have also highlighted the lack of big data skills as a barrier to organizations capitalizing on the potential of big data. Both of the top responses in Jaspersoft’s survey show this is indeed a problem — especially the top answer since data does not have to be unstructured to be considered big data.”

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