Information overload? There’s a Big Data Consortium for that

Information overload? There’s a Big Data Consortium for that:

“This consortium is critical to determining national needs, both for research and for education,” says Greg Butler, Concordia’s representative. Butler is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Greg Butler is Concordia’s representative in the newly created Big Data Consortium. Photo by Concordia University

The Big Data Consortium is a partnership of universities and industry. The academic founders are Concordia University, Ryerson University, Dalhousie University and Simon Fraser University; industry is represented by Deloitte, TMX Group, the Information Technology Association of Canada and SAS Canada. The consortium also has a government partner, Industry Canada, which represents the Government of Canada.