Start Date
12-13-2015
Description
While data analytics programs are proliferating in many disciplines, traditional academic approaches seem to favor depth of technical skills over soft skills in their approaches to creating data analytics programs. Yet business wants an equal focus on communication, relationship development, and other soft skills. This panel will explore the issues in graduate analytics education to develop an understanding of the spectra of needed topic areas and discuss what these mean for analytics program design.
Recommended Citation
Rogers, David; Fernandez-Lamela, Damian; Narayan, Ravishankar; and Conger, Sue, "A Dialectic on Graduate Analytics Education" (2015). ICIS 2015 Proceedings. 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2015/proceedings/Panels/2
A Dialectic on Graduate Analytics Education
While data analytics programs are proliferating in many disciplines, traditional academic approaches seem to favor depth of technical skills over soft skills in their approaches to creating data analytics programs. Yet business wants an equal focus on communication, relationship development, and other soft skills. This panel will explore the issues in graduate analytics education to develop an understanding of the spectra of needed topic areas and discuss what these mean for analytics program design.