The Potsdam PhDay is a biannual day-long event hosted by the Potsdam Graduate School to connect doctoral researchers across the University of Potsdam and showcase their work. In the presentation sessions, five doctoral researchers from the same faculty compete against each other with ten-minute presentations on their dissertation projects.
Basanta Thapa’s winning presentation portrayed Big Data Analytics as a rational myth, framing an evening out with friends as a wicked problem and making ample use of Game of Thrones references.