BIG DATA: PUBLICATION ADVANCES AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

As the increasing supply and demand of data and tools to manage them creates the Big Data (BD) paradigm, the academic engagement in this discussion becomes essential. Based on bibliometric data and Baskerville and Myers (2009) lenses, this paper identifies an academic and non-academic BD interest wave raised in 2011 and continuously growing since then. To perform a deeper investigation of BD in the Information System (IS) field, some ICT publications were analyzed to capture the level of BD participation in their agenda and to present the subjects covered by them and their word cloud representations. We also propose five topics for future research, highlighting the importance of being attentive to such emergent phenomena and to build a solid IS research tradition that can effectively collaborate with the progress of theory and practice. We finally call the attention to the need of studies investigating the Brazilian academy performance concerning this topic, especially relevant in a country such as Brazil, which is a great data generator.