By: Dr. Jennifer Lewis Priestley, Executive Director of Analytics and Data Science Institute, Kennesaw State University and Dr. Robert McGrath, Chair of Health Management and Policy, University of New Hampshire
This is part 1 of a 5-part series on university/corporate partnerships in analytics and data science How many .edu addresses do you have in your email contacts? If you are like most Analytics Managers, the answer is “not many”. Academia and the private sector have historically rarely intersected. But increasingly there is a permeable membrane between the two, with arguably more collaboration occurring than at any other time in history. Consider the following: Before 2005 there were no formal university programs in the country with the title “Data Science”, or “Business Analytics”. Largely in response to the
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