Online:
Visits:
Stories:
Profile image
By Environmental and Urban Economics (Reporter)
Contributor profile | More stories
Story Views

Now:
Last Hour:
Last 24 Hours:
Total:

A Masters Degree in “Big Data Analysis” = Masters in Economics?

Saturday, February 8, 2014 21:58
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.

(Before It's News)

The Chronicle of Higher Education has identified a growing industry.  The market wants more “big data” analysts.  As more serious research universities (including soon UCLA) launch Masters in Economics programs, I would hope that these initiatives focus on training our students in “big data” techniques.  Ignoring boring stuff such as data base maintenance, the key to the curriculum should be basic micro economic logic, hypothesis testing and applied econometrics at the level of “Mostly Harmless Economics”.    Topics such as general equilibrium, dynamic programming,  and advanced topics in game theory and asymmetric information should not be touched in such a terminal masters sequence.

So, my point is that Economics Departments (not “information systems schools” or statistics departments) should be the leading trainers of “Big Data” analysts.   The Econ Departments should figure out how to augment their offerings by teaming up with GIS experts and data base maintenance and data base security guys to offer auxiliary courses that provide students with necessary “real world” skills.  

It will interest me which Deans of Social Sciences at which Universities are smart enough to empower their Economics Departments to grow to meet this rising demand.  



Source: http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-masters-degree-in-big-data-analysis.html

Report abuse

Comments

Your Comments
Question   Razz  Sad   Evil  Exclaim  Smile  Redface  Biggrin  Surprised  Eek   Confused   Cool  LOL   Mad   Twisted  Rolleyes   Wink  Idea  Arrow  Neutral  Cry   Mr. Green

Top Stories
Recent Stories

Register

Newsletter

Email this story
Email this story

If you really want to ban this commenter, please write down the reason:

If you really want to disable all recommended stories, click on OK button. After that, you will be redirect to your options page.