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As someone else working in the BI space, my coworkers and myself have been saying similar things. I feel like "Big Data" has the same feel that BI had years ago.

Also, we're all pretty sure that the title "Data Scientist" will be applied far too liberally. I have friends at other BI firms who are already calling themselves data scientists because they attended a convention where the words "Hadoop" and "Cloudera" were spoken.

Here is a collection of open source Operations Research (CP and LP falls under the umbrella of Operations Research) projects: http://www.coin-or.org/projects/

There are many fantastic open source libraries in there to handle many types of optimization or assignment.