Big Data Analytics: A Field of Opportunities for Information Systems and Technology Researchers

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the information systems research community has been experiencing an exciting time discovering and coming to grips with many unexplored or untapped opportunities for research that lie at the intersection of the disciplines of information systems and technology, big data, analytics, and data science. In this article, some of the critical aspects of the big data problem are discussed, and their importance as well as relevance to information systems research is shown. Also proposed are a number of research problems in this area that interested information systems scholars can address to delve more deeply into the field as well as to generate further active interest of the subject within the information systems community.

KEYWORDS:

• Big data analytics
• information systems and technology
• research issues

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Jaideep Ghosh

Jaideep Ghosh is associate professor of decision sciences, operations management, and management IS at the School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Shiv Nadar University, India. He is also a Ramanujan Fellow of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) - Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. His research interests include applications of social networks, big data analytics, system dynamics, and econometric methods in operations and IS. Jaideep is an editorial board member of several peer-reviewed journals and has published many articles in journals and conference proceedings. His awards include several best article awards and a best track chair award at the annual conference of the Global Information Technology Management Association.