Learner's Guide to the Galaxy

Learner's Guide to the Galaxy


Episode 1 – Big Data

March 24, 2015

Well here it is, our first ever podcast. We are looking forward to bringing you along on this journey through the galaxy. In today’s episode we are chatting about Big Data. What a large, amazing, terrifying, and unbelievable topic.

Our first guest is Geoff Pond. Geoff is a professor of business at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario. He previously worked for six years as an operations analyst at Defence Research and Development Canada and holds a Ph.D. and B.Sc.Eng awarded from the University of New Brunswick. His research interests include mathematical programming, both local and global optimization algorithms, and fuzzy logic.