Director-IT Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey, Prof. Puja Dhar, Prof. Umang and Dr. Vidushi Singh had attended one day International Workshop on “Big Data Analytics” on 30thMarch, 2016 at JNU, New Delhi. The objective of this workshop was to analyze Big Data. The details of the workshop are as follows:

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March
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30
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2016
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. MukeshMohania IBM Researcher, Dr. T.V.Vijay Kumar JNU, Dr. D.P.Vidyarthi JNU. Dr. Mohania has delivered his keynote talk on “Big Data Analytics and Application” The workshop was divided into 5 different talks by 5 eminent speakers.
Talk 1:
Topic :“Bid Data and Contextual Intelligence”
Speaker: Dr. L.V. Subramaniam, IBM Researcher.
While addressing the participants Dr.Subramaniam discussed about the sources and characteristics of Big Data with 4 V’s used into it.
Talk 2:
Topic : “An Overview of the Map Reduce Research”
Speaker : Dr. Himanshu Gupta,IBM Researcher.
Dr. Gupta has started his talk by defining HDFS in detail. He also explained why and how replication is done. He also discussed in detail about Map Reduce. He concluded his session by mentioning some research areas of Map Reduce.
Dr. GuptatTalk 3:
Topic : “Scalable Graph Algorithms on Massively Parallel Computers”
Speaker: Dr. Yogesh Sabharwal,IBM Researcher.
While addressing the participants, Dr. Sabharwal briefed about Single Source Shortest Path.He also talked about basic algorithmslike Dijkstra and Bellman-Ford in detail. At the end he has given comparison on between the basic algorithms.
Talk 4:
Topic : “Introduction to Knowledge Graph Stores with Application”
Speakers: Dr. Sameep Mehta,IBM Researcher.
Mr. Mehta discussed about , Apache and about the Challenges for Cloud Computing like availability of service, what happens when the service cannot deliver service, data confidentiality and availability is a serious problem. He said that security is the major concern in cloud computing. He also discussed about the knowledge graph stores with applications. He also gave some live examples of day to day life.
Talk 5
Topic : “Issues and Challenges in Sentiment Extraction from Financial Data”
Speakers: Dr. Ananda Swarup Das,IBM Researcher.
While addressing the participants Dr. Ananda talked about the issues and challenges in Sentiment Extraction from Financial Data. He nicely explained each aspect related to the financial data and how it is extracted from the live data.
At the end of this one workshop, certificates and mementos were distributed among participants.
Overall it was a good and new learning experience about BigData.