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Editorial-Big Data, Data Science, and Analytics: The Opportunity and Challenge for IS Research

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Ritu Agarwal,

Vasant DharAuthors Info & Claims

Information Systems Research, Volume 25, Issue 3

Pages 443 - 448

https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2014.0546

Published: 01 September 2014 Publication History

Abstract

We address key questions related to the explosion of interest in the emerging fields of big data, analytics, and data science. We discuss the novelty of the fields and whether the underlying questions are fundamentally different, the strengths that the information systems IS community brings to this discourse, interesting research questions for IS scholars, the role of predictive and explanatory modeling, and how research in this emerging area should be evaluated for contribution and significance.

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Information Systems Research Volume 25, Issue 3

September 2014

224 pages

ISSN:1526-5536

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