There’s been so much hype about the concept of “Big Data” in recent years that the importance of the data itself gets lost.
It’s about bettering “the human condition,” stressed Dr. Chang Chung, Fair360, formerly DiversityInc’s chief science officer, who joined the team in August after working for Princeton University’s Office of Population Research.
“People say the word big data, but I think that will become just data,” Chung explained. Data, he continued, is becoming more abundant, accessible, and transparent. Data is also proving diversity is more than just a nice-to-have, but a must-have if businesses want to be successful.