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

Ritu Agarwal () and Vasant Dhar ()
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Ritu Agarwal: Center for Health Information and Decision Systems, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
Vasant Dhar: Center for Business Analytics, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York 10012

Information Systems Research, 2014, vol. 25, issue 3, 443-448

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.

Date: 2014
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