{"id":3358,"date":"2011-06-30T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2019-04-17T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:09:24","slug":"analytics-talent-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=3358","title":{"rendered":"Analytics Talent Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a title=\"research report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/mgi\/publications\/big_data\/\" target=\"_blank\">consulting report<\/a> projects there will be a continuing severe shortage of analytics talent well into the decade: &#8220;By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions.&#8221; The application of analytics <!--more-->is seen as the key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus. The <a href=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=1799\">Master of Science in Analytics<\/a> (MSA) degree program was launched in 2007 to directly address the shortage of talent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new consulting report projects there will be a continuing severe shortage of analytics talent well into the decade: &#8220;By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15538,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/15538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}