The sector offers many career options for the technically minded – from programming and consultancy to data processing.
Bureau Van Dijk (BvD), another consultancy, collects data from a big range of firms, from giants like Asda and Co-op to a long tail of one-man outfits.
It can add a richer, more human understanding to flesh out information by numbers", said Peter Worster, partner of data consultancy Conduit.
The official numbers have gaps, but independent analyses are helping to fill them McKinsey, a consultancy, published new data on enrolment on May 8th.
Already one environmental data consultancy called Amee is playing with Minecraft by adding real IPCC greenhouse gas emissions data to the game scenario, so demonstrating player-made climate change.
Simon Williams, co-founder of QuantumBlack, a London-based data consultancy, says his visits to CERN (to seek technical help with number-crunching) prompted him to value PhDs over MBAs.
Forecast International, an aerospace marketing and data consultancy, predicts that Embraer's market share in unit volume will rival that of Bombardier's over the next ten years.
Solutions that create more problems than they solve are not really solutions," says Gemma Galdón, founder and CEO at data consultancy Eticas Research commenting on TfL's Uber verdict.
Founded by David Soloff, the former lead architect at ad startup Rapt (which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008), and Michael Driscoll, the founder of a data consultancy Dataspora, Metamarkets will use the new funding to build out the startup's engineering team.
The project was created by design studio Stamen, building consultancy Arup, and data mapping company Movity.
