Department of IT Conducted One Day Workshop on “Data Science using Python”

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Department of IT, I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad conducted one day workshop on “Data Science using Python” on Saturday, 24 March, 2018 for MCA and BCA students of the Institute. The coordinators and resource persons of the workshop were Prof. Chandra Mani Sharma & Prof. Varun Arora.
The workshop was formally inaugurated in the benign presence of Director IT, Dr Sunil Kr Pandey; Chairperson MCA, Prof Puja Dhar; Coordinator MCA, Prof Smita Kansal and other faculty members of Department of IT.
In his opening address, Director-IT, Dr Sunil Kr Pandey motivated and sensitized the participants for the importance of Data Science in today’s time. He started with historical evolution of very concept of Data and various operations on it in early days of DBMS and later-on in the era of Data Warehousing. He kept on touching the avenues of Big Data Analytics and Data Science.

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2018

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Subsequently, Prof Chandra Mani Sharma conducted three sessions on Data Science with hands-on practice on Data Science. In session-1, Prof Sharma gave and aerial overview of basic programming concepts in Python including Data Structures, conditional statements, loops, creation of modules and Anaconda environment.
In session-2, various packages for Data Science including numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas, sklearn etc., were discussed with code examples. Session-3 had the demonstration and applications of Python for data visualization and analytics. This session also had open Q/A, wherein participants had their queries answered on various aspects of Data Science such as career prospects, where to move next etc.
At the end of the workshop, each participant received the Certification of Participation from the dignitaries. Each participant appreciated the worthiness of the workshop and took away some food for thought.