In unimaginable ways! Today, every business in the world generates or consumes data, without exceptions. Enterprises are actively leveraging this data not just for their day-to-day operations, but to ensure survival in the market. At the other end, we consumers generate and consume data as well.

When you look at these together, the data streams of business and consumers are highly intertwined, and any uncovered space in between has economic potential. While data science market is quantified in terms of the direct spend, the impact that data science has on world economics is so huge that I wonder if anyone has attempted putting a number to it.