Emerging Opportunities for Young Data Scientists
A guest lecture titled “Emerging Opportunities for Young Data Scientists” was organized for the KCT. BS 50 Analytics students of II MBA (Batch 2020-22) on November 25, 2021. The event was presided by the guest speaker, Prof Anantha Rao, Dean of School of Data Science, Kumaraguru College of Arts and Science. The core objective of the lecture was focused on the unlimited opportunities available for analytics graduates in the business market. The speaker highlighted areas like Customer Analytics, Predictive analytics, Creditworthiness of the customer, Risk analytics in various industry verticals etc. There were many useful nuances delivered by the speaker to the audience regarding the importance of spending money on important data, how to assess the value of the data and how business gets impacted when important data is ignored by the poor judgment of an analyst. The lecture was so interactive and relatable as the speaker quoted many real-time experiences from his rich industry experience in the analytics domain. The speaker also addressed the audience briefly about the history of how big data evolved and how the industry kept changing with the change in needs and how people in the industry should update themselves with change in industry trends and skillset that is required for the same accordingly. The speaker took the audience through R studio and how effectively it can be used by managers in terms of analysis and insights. How business presentation can be made easily using R studio and easy ways of keeping the team and managers posted about the work progress using R. The guest lecture was organized by Mr. Vivek Raj SN, Assistant Professor-Analytics.