Kristina Gavin Bigsby
Director, Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Instruction
Current Positions
- Associate Professor of Instruction, Business Analytics
- Director, Undergraduate Studies, Business Analytics
Education
- PhD in Informatics, University of Iowa
- MA in Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
- BA in English, University of Iowa
- BM in Music, University of Iowa
Selected Awards & Honors
- Part-time MSBA Instructor of the Year - Core, 2024
- Faculty/Staff Member Making Positive Difference in the Life of a Graduating Senior - University of Iowa, 2023
- Collegiate Teaching Award - Tippie College of Business, 2022
- Undergraduate Faculty of the Year - Tippie College of Business, 2021
Selected Publications
- Bigsby, K., Ohlmann, J., & Zhao, K. (2019). The turf is always greener: Predicting decommitments in college football recruiting using Twitter data. Decision Support Systems.
- Bigsby, K., Ohlmann, J., & Zhao, K. (2018). Keeping it 100: Social media and self-presentation in college football recruiting. Big Data.
- Bigsby, K. G., Ohlmann, J. W., & Zhao, K. (2017). Online and off the field: Using social media data to predict school choice in college football recruiting. Decision Analysis. 14 (4) pp. 261-273. DOI: 10.1287/deca.2017.0353.
- Bigsby, K. G. & Ohlmann, J. W. (2017). Ranking and prediction of collegiate wrestling. Journal of Sports Analytics. 3 (1) pp. 1-19. DOI: 10.3233/jsa-160024.
Editorial & Review Activities
- Referee/Reviewer, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2020-21.
- Referee/Reviewer, PLOS One, 2020-21.
- Referee/Reviewer, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2020-21.