James Drogan

I've spent some time over the last several months -- beginning with 2011 IBM Performance Event: From Insight to Foresight, an examination of big data and analytics, in New York in May 2011 and including another IBM event Transforming an Industry – Watson in Higher Education, at IBM's Watson Lab in June 2011.  Coincidentally, I presume, McKinsey & Company announced a report, Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity (Manyika, J., Chui, M., Bughin, J., Brown, B., Dobbs, R., Roxburgh, C., & Byers, A. H. (2011). Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity. McKinsey Global Institute.).

The question that occurs to me is, “Should I (and others) better prepare my (our) students to survive, thrive, and make a difference in world awash in big data?”  If true, what is the impact on the curricula?

My musings on this question can be found at How Do You Talk to Big Data?