The chessboard has 32 pieces and 64 boxes and given the scale of production of chess boards, it can be assumed that there are quite a few people in the world who would know how the pieces move and how chess is played. However, there are only a few people who can really play chess in a manner that is worth watching.
We are going to wildly extrapolate the same thing to working with data. Yes, there is an enormous amount of data and there is a sizable population of the workforce across different industries who have the word analyst in their designation. So the question is what really differentiates a report from analysis and what differentiates an analyst from a data cruncher/visualizer. This our experience tells us is a challenge that dogs the analytics industry. The ability to write a piece of SQL code makes you an analyst as much as having a telescope makes you an astronomer.
