The report discusses about Big Data talent pool across different cities in United State of America

1. US Big Data – Talent Overview
January 2013
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3. What is Big Data
Big Data systems provide actionable insights based on new emerging contents, helping
people make critical decision across a multitude of business and social aspects
Data in the current world
“Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created
in the last two years alone” - IBM Big Data Portal
“Facebook’s Hadoop disk cluster has 100 petabytes of data. A single petabyte is 1,048,576 gigabytes.”
- Jay Parikh, Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook
Need for Big Data
Emerging Digital Data Sources : With evolution of technology the quantity of data gathered has evolved along with the
sources of data. Some of prominent sources of huge data sets , most of which are digital in nature are satellite
signals, data from social networking sites, digital media, online transactions, mobile networks etc.
Limitation of Conventional Software : With an ever increasing size of data , conventional warehouse tools and software
are significantly underpowered to store and analyze the data.
Fuelled by the emergence of new digital sources, limitation of conventional warehouse tools as well as potential to
create value for various public and private organizations by helping them analyse the vast available data sources to
improve their functioning has lead to emergence of Big Data system.
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4. Who is investing in Big Data
In addition to all the existing big players like IBM, SAP, EMC many small and medium
enterprise companies have started investing in Big Data realizing its potential
Source : Various technology portals like Techcrunch, Engadget etc.
Ayasdi, a Silicon Valley based start-up, which is backed by Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency(DARPA) an agency of the US Defense Department has recently raised 10 million USD in
series A financing, led by Khosla Ventures and Floodgate. Ayasdi aims to improve the methodology
to transform Big Data into actionable insights.
Latest Big Data Activities and Investments
IBM has recently released new mainframe computers to help clients analyze massive amounts of
data, meeting the demands of various clients in the age of “Big Data”
Fidelity Growth Partners India has invested 20 million USD in AbsolutData Research and Analytics
for advanced and Big Data analytics
Cloudera has raised 65 million USD through Accel Partners to expand it’s Hadoop technology
adoption
As per a recent research paper published by a leading market research firm Big
Data will drive 232 billion USD in investments and spending] by 2016
Telefónica Digital, a subsidiary of Telefonica broadband and telecommunications provider launched a
product aimed at companies to analyze what factors influence the number of people visiting a
location at any time using Big Data
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5. Jobs and Skills
Emergence of Big Data has led to steep spike in the demand for technically skilled talent
pool creating a huge gap between the available supply and the required demand
While hiring folks for Big Data related project, recruiters lookout for people with proficiency in the following skills and
techniques :
What Skills Are Required in Big Data ?
What are the common job titles in Big Data ?
Data Scientist
Analytics Scientist
Statistical Consultant
Analytics Consultant
Statistical Analyst
Data Mining Engineer
Data Engineer
A/B Testing Machine Learning Predictive Models
Cluster Analysis Natural Language Processing Regression
Data Fusion And Data Integration Neural Networks Spatial Analysis
Data Mining Pattern Recognition Statistics
Ensemble Learning Predictive Modeling Time Series Analysis
Source : Talent Neuron, Recruitment Websites, Recruiting Agencies, Professional Networking Websites
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6. Top Locations for Talent in Big Data
Washington D.C. Metro area has one of the highest Big Data talent in US, mostly due to
the presence of big public sector offices employing their skill sets on several government
initiatives
Chicago
1,400
Los Angeles
1,750
New York
3,450
Atlanta
1,050
Top Locations for Big Data
Bay Area
1,650
Boston
1,850
Washington D.C.
~4,500
Austin
1,100
Seattle
~1,200
Dallas
1,300
Source : Talent Neuron, Public Literature Analysis
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