SUIT WORKSHOP ON "INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE"

On November 5, 2020, the Student’s unit of IT department held a workshop on “Introduction to Data Science.” This event took place during “TECHYON”. This workshop drew a total of 102 participants. Ms. Sonia Fernandes, the SUIT faculty coordinator, assisted in the planning of this event. The event began promptly at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 12 p.m. The goal of this workshop was to provide attendees an overview of how data science works and how it may assist large corporations in solving day-to-day data-related problems. In addition, it attempted to introduce several techniques for solving common data science problems.

The topics covered by the workshop included, what is data science about; followed by steps involved in data science projects. The speakers for the event were Saily, Ayush, Sambhu and Anchal from BEIT. The workshop began with a theory session where we reviewed various aspects of data science and the problems it seeks to answer. Following the theory session, a Demo session was held to demonstrate some of the concepts discussed in the theory session. Following the session, all participants were sent a feedback Form, which got positive responses.