A Forrester Research Report released in November, gave some Big Data Predictions for 2018.

The number of global survey respondents at enterprises with more than 100 terabytes of unstructured data has doubled since 2016. However, because older-generation text analytics platforms are so complex, only 32% of companies have successfully analyzed text data, and even fewer are analyzing other unstructured sources. This is about to change, as deep learning has made analyzing this type of data more accurate and scalable.  Read more here.