Big Data Specialist – Employers’ Expectations and the Academic Education

Abstract

The dynamic growth in the amount of data and widespread informatization of the economy have contributed to increasing demand on the labor market for Big Data specialists. The aim of this paper is to point out the need to adapt academic education to the requirements of the modern labor market and to introduce specialized courses concerning Big Data technology and analysis of large data sets. The paper discusses the importance of Big Data. It presents also some examples of required compe-tencies of the job positions related to Big Data as well as contains the review of chosen curricula on the Polish universities from the point of view of their relationship with Big Data.