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HR Analytics and Big Data through the lens of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Part I Published on May 12, 2015 May 12, 2015 • 140 Likes • 15 Comments For past few months, I have been working on projects which are very close to the end customers. Big Data can even help psychological scientists study studies, said Tal Yarkoni of the University of Texas at Austin. Latent variable models (e.g., confirmatory factor models, structural equation models [SEMs]) are common in psychology given our multivariate measurements and our fairly common longitudinal designs. Yarkoni and others recently developed Neurosynth, an online program that analyzes huge amounts of fMRI data to guide users toward a subject of interest. I think I/O Psychologists are in a very favorable position in this big data movement. And so what I am learning as I researched the topic, and just as I had suspected, is that there are many others in the I/O Psychology field who are also involved in HR analytics and big data. Recently, I was asked about the role of I/O Psychologists in HR analytics and this whole "big data" movement. Companies increasingly collect exabytes of data — one exabyte is more than 4,000 times the amount of information in the U.S. Library of Congress's Web archives. 21, No. Big data has increased the demand of information management specialists so much so that Software AG, Oracle Corporation, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, EMC, HP and Dell have spent more than $15 billion on software firms specializing in data management and analytics. The availability of Big Data is more and more common in many fields including business, computer science, government, social and behavioral sciences, and psychology. But just as it creates new opportunities, access to huge chests of information also creates new challenges for research, said Michael N. Jones of Indiana University Bloomington, introducing a theme program on Big Data at the 2014 APS Annual Convention in San Francisco. Introduction . Forget puny gigabytes. Four common themes emerged: the benefits of collaboration across disciplines, availability of large data sets on social media sites, ethical considerations when analyzing large data sets gained from public or private sources, and the necessity of validating predictive models in big data. This era of Big Data has enormous potential to change the way psychological scientists observe human behavior. Tavish Srivastava, April 19, 2017 .