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Academe responds to Big Data wave

Over 75 percent of employers surveyed said they preferred to hire students with formal business analytics degrees or majors.

Academic programs in information systems are in a strong position to train the workforce that will assume the challenge of understanding and managing Big Data, according to a recently released report by a special panel of the Association for Information Systems, the leading organization of business analytics professionals worldwide.

The report found that professors have been increasing their use of outside teaching resources, including tutorials and case studies, some of which are supplied by businesses that have partnered with academia. The report recommends that academics and those in industry work together to develop teaching resources that are relevant to the real world but also tailored for use by students in an academic setting. –

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