OTTAWA BRANCH / SECTION D'OTTAWA
CIG Ottawa Branch
Big Data Analytics in Geomatics
North America and Europe together lead the pack with a combined 70 percent of the big data being generated today. We expect demand for big data analytical talent could reach 50 to 60 percent in 2020. Developing the analytical skills requires an underlying aptitude in geomatics engineering, spatial statistics, and computer science for starters, and then will take years of training. The talk will introduce the analytical skills a geomatics engineer needs to develop for becoming a data scientist in the future. The talk will also examine the state-of-the-art in Big Data analytics, looking at data ingestion in the era of Internet of Things, streaming data processing and analytics for extracting spatial patterns in real-time, and visualization of large volumes and variety of data at a global scale.
Dr. Monica Wachowicz
NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Real-Time Mobility Analytics
Cisco Chair in Big Data Analytics
People in Motion Lab
University of New Brunswick
Dr. Wachowicz is an Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick. Her role as the NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair is to establish a centre of expertise in IoT technologies and their application in smart cities and location intelligence. Her main research areas include streaming processing, real-time mobility analytics and mapping for Internet of Things. She has over 200 publications and is currently the Editor-in-Chief with Dr. Estefanakis of the Cartographica Journal. She has a solid R&D experience operating in multidisciplinary teams from government, industry and research organizations.
