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The previous KDnuggets Poll asked: How much the amount of your paid data mining / analytic industry work has changed since last year?

The poll results show that demand for data mining did not decrease due to financial crisis, since the median response shows that amount of work stayed the same or slightly increased.

Analysis by region (determined by GeoIP lookup), shows that US data mining work has declined slightly, while it grew in Europe.

Here are full results of Financial Crisis Effect on Data Mining Poll, Mar 2009.

This is better than was expected in a similar Financial Crisis Expected Effect on Data Mining Poll, Oct 2008, where jobs and consulting were forecast to drop significantly.

The continuing demand for data mining is confirmed by the number of KDnuggets jobs for Q1 2009, which is about 20% higher than for Q4 2008 and at the same level as Q2 and Q3 of 2008.