Big data is creating many career opportunities across various industries. However, there is a significant skills gap between the available qualified workers and expected demand for big data professionals through 2018. While some large companies like Amazon and Google have benefited from big data insights, many companies have not due to a lack of workers with deep analytical skills to work with big data. There is predicted to be a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 big data professionals globally by 2018.