Gartner Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021

When COVID-19 hit, organizations using traditional analytics techniques that rely heavily on large amounts of historical data realized one important thing: Many of these models are no longer relevant. Essentially, the pandemic changed everything, rendering a lot of data useless. In turn, forward-looking data and analytics teams are pivoting from traditional AI techniques relying on "big" data to a class of analytics that requires less, or "small" and more varied. Transitioning from big data to small and wide data is one of the Gartner top data and analytics trends for 2021. These trends represent business, market and technology dynamics that data and analytics leaders cannot afford to ignore.