The Rhodes iiD developed out of a faculty-led assessment in the spring of 2012, looking at how Duke’s research could evolve with a stronger enabling focus on big data as a foundation. The assessment was organized by Calderbank and then Vice Provost Keith Whitfield and included more than 30 faculty from all three divisions of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences (humanities, social sciences and natural sciences), the Pratt School of Engineering, the Sanford School of Public Policy, the Fuqua School of Business, the School of Medicine, the Duke Library system as well as representatives from the library and department of statistics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.