The Data Day, Today: September 10 2012

Total data reporting. Business value from Hadoop. and more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Three days: September 3/4/5 2012

Basho joins CloudStack. Pentaho rides Hadoop wave. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: August 27/28 2012

Citrusleaf. Aerospike. AlchemyDB. Sqrrl. Percolator. Dremel. Pregel. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: August 20/21 2012

JustOne preps 2.0. Sqrrl raises $2m. Hadoop: can there be only one?

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Three days: August 15/16/17 2012

Symantec teams CFS with Hadoop. Informatica Cloud. And more

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: August 9/10 2012

HP’s Autonomy problem. Excel 2013. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The distribution of Hadoop and MapReduce skills, according to LinkedIn

Back in December we published an assessment on the distribution of Hadoop skills, based on LinkedIn search results.

Thanks to a temporary lull in GB’s Olympic medal-winning exploits I ran the search again the other day. The results are pretty interesting for a number of reasons.

First the headline stats:

  • There are over 22,000 people with Hadoop in their LinkedIn profiles, up from just over 9,000 in December 2011, an increase of over 144% in eight months.
  • Hadoop skills are becoming more evenly distributed: 60.4% of LinkedIn members with Hadoop in the profiles are based in the US, compared to 64.5% in December 2011.
  • Growth areas include India (11.9% from 9.7%), China (4.4% from 3.6%, and the UK (3.4% from 3.0%).
  • However, the Bay Area remains the best place to find Hadoop enthusiasts, with 24.9% (albeit down from 28.2% eight months ago)

This time I also ran a similar search for MapReduce skills. The headline results:

  • MapReduce is mentioned in 6,424 LinkedIn profiles.
  • MapReduce skills are more evenly distributed: 61.9% of LinkedIn members with MapReduce in their profiles are based in the US, 38.1% in the rest of the world.
  • That said, over a quarter (25.9%) of LinkedIn members with MapReduce in their profiles are based in the Bay area.
  • Other geographic hotspots are India (8.7%), Seattle area (5.8%), and NYC area (4.8%).

This time I also looked at which vendors are listed as the current employers of LinkedIn members citing Hadoop and MapReduce. One really surprising result stood out:

  • Microsoft is the second largest employer of both Hadoop and MapReduce skills, according to LinkedIn member profiles
  • Redmond employs 1.7% of all LinkedIn members with Hadoop in their profiles, and 3.0% of members with MapReduce in their profiles
  • Yahoo is the largest employer of Hadoop skills (2.9%), with other ‘non-vendors’ also well represented: Google (1.3%), eBay (also 1.3%), Amazon (1.2%), LinkedIn (1.1%).
  • Google is by far the largest employer of MapReduce skills, as you might expect, with 7.1%. Also well represented are Yahoo (2.7%), Amazon (1.8%) and LinkedIn (1.4%).


The Data Day, Today: August 8 2012

Who loves Hadoop? Who doesn’t?

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: July 26/27 2012

Special Twitter crash double edition. TransLattice, SAP, Lavastorm, QlikTech. And more.

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The Data Day, Today: July 18 2012

Basho enters Japan. US Senate/NSA open source policy and NoSQL design brouhaha.

And that’s the Data Day, today.