Your government, your web server, your business partners, even your body. While we aren’t drowning in a sea of data, we’re finding that almost everything can (or has) been instrumented. We frequently combine publishing industry data from Nielsen Book Scan with our own sales data, publicly available Amazon data, and even job data to see what’s happening in the publishing industry. Data is everywhere Sites like Infochimps and Factual provide access to many large datasets, including climate data, MySpace activity streams, and game logs from sporting events. Factual enlists users to update and improve its datasets, which cover topics as diverse as endocrinologists to hiking trails. How the data is growing Much of the data we currently work with is the direct consequence of Web 2.0, and of Moore’s Law applied to data. The Web has people spending more time online and leaving a trail of data wherever they go. Mobile applications leave an even richer data trail since many of them a...

In my recent analysis, I have found that a lot of jobs will be created in big data analysis area. I have listed the real opportunities here. I have collected a few of the things, and I am sharing with you. Opportunities ahead to get a job  The huge volume of data created by users from multiple devices in a variety of formats.  Need specialized skills to analyze the data, and to get predictive results. The tools developed by SAP, IBM, and Oracle provide multiple opportunities to start a career in data analytics.   Video on job opportunities