available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI will guide participants from the basics of big data analytics into a deeper discussion of how to handle unconventionally large data matrices in a multitude of applications,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ahmed believes that big data analysis is important in multiple research fields such as engineering, social media networks, bioinformatics, personalized medicine, and environmental and financial studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many challenging questions to address,\u201d he said. \u201cFor example, how to acquire, manage, process, analyze and make sense of big data?\u201d<\/p>\n
COMSTECH, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation\u2019s (OIC) ministerial standing committee on scientific and technological co-operation, organizes several projects for the promotion and effective deployment of science and technology in the OIC region.<\/p>\n
An international organization of 57 member states, the OIC considers itself “the collective voice of the Muslim world” and works to “safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace\u00a0and harmony.”<\/p>\n
Ahmed will join a prestigious collective of speakers who have delivered talks in the series including former Prime Minister of Jordan Professor Adnan Badran and former Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Pakistan, Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to be invited to speak on a topic of value for the OIC,\u201d Ahmed said. \u201cBig data analytics has emerged as a lucrative tool that doesn\u2019t require any specific location such as a lab to achieve success, which gives it global appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahmed believes that creating data centres in OIC member states may be beneficial.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnalysts can perform their careers from their own countries without having to travel abroad and leave their families. For many cultures, being close to relatives is a necessary component of family life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The webinar is open to academics, scientists and the general public from all member OIC states and beyond. To register please visit the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The human urge \u2014 and ability \u2014 to collect and gather data has never been greater. From academia to big business and all around the globe, organizations are employing vast and sophisticated networks to discover and maintain massive data troves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":73341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,41,1,4],"tags":[3549,10559,9017,3106,348,10560,10558,10557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73342,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73340\/revisions\/73342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}