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.
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.