Gartner, Inc. predicts that by 2025, 70% of organizations will shift their focus from big to small and wide data, providing more context for analytics and making artificial intelligence (AI) less data hungry.

“Disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic is causing historical data that reflects past conditions to quickly become obsolete, which is breaking many production AI and machine learning (ML) models,” said Jim Hare, distinguished research vice president at Gartner. “In addition, decision making by humans and AI has become more complex and demanding, and overly reliant on data hungry deep learning approaches.”

Gartner analysts discussed new data and analytics (D&A) techniques to build a resilient, adaptable and data literate organization during the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2021, which is taking place virtually in EMEA through Thursday.

D&A leaders need to turn to new analytics techniques knows as “small data” and “wide data”. “Taken together they are capable of using available data more effectively, either by reducing the required volume or by extracting more value from unstructured, diverse data sources,” said Mr. Hare".