{"id":11826,"date":"2016-09-22T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=11826"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:00:10","slug":"debating-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=11826","title":{"rendered":"Debating Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute&#8217;s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, spoke to a large group of students and faculty today at Hofstra University, site of the upcoming first Presidential Debate in Hempstead, New York. In anticipation of the historic event Hofstra is hosting a series of discussions on hot topics including the transformational impact of Big Data analytics <!--more-->on business. Dr. Rappa was joined by a panel of distinguished executives including: Diane Garnick, Managing Director &amp; Chief Income Strategist, TIAA, a leading financial services provider; Timothy Cecere, Chief Talent Officer, GroupM, the world\u2019s largest media investment group; Dr. Yosef Dlugacz, Senior Vice President, Krasnoff Quality Management Institute and Chief of Clinical Quality, Education and Research, NorthWell Health System; and John Turato, Vice President of Technology, Avis. The panel was moderated by Dr. Farrokh Nasri, Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics at Hofstra.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11869\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/debate-panel-2016-1.png\" alt=\"Hofstra Big Data Debate Panel\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute&#8217;s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, spoke to a large group of students and faculty today at Hofstra University, site of the upcoming first Presidential Debate in Hempstead, New York. In anticipation of the historic event Hofstra is hosting a series of discussions on hot topics including the transformational impact of Big Data analytics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11826"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25944,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions\/25944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}