Monday, April 19, 2021

Demystifying Data Science

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu has organised a special online lecture series OLSL: Online Lecture Series in LIS. The third online lecture in the series was organised on 16th April, 2021 (Friday) at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM through Google Meet. Mr. Mohit Garg, Assistant Librarian, Prof. R. D. Munda Central Library, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak has been invited as resource person and he delivered the talk on “Demystifying Data Science”.


The meeting started with a welcome address given by Dr. Akhandanand Shukla, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, CUTN Thiruvarur followed by a brief introduction about the resource person. 

The resource person started by introducing the discipline of data science and continued with its relevance in our day-to-day life and it’s historical aspects. The lecture included discussion about the integration of the said topic into Library and Information Science and later listed down various tools and resources of further study on data science for the students. He elaborated the study of data science by illustrating one of his own projects. Mr. Garg also explained why data science would be one of the leading job sectors in the years to come. 

The lecture series was coordinated by Dr. Anila Sulochana, Assistant Professor and conducted by the Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur and attended by 34 members including faculties, research scholars, and MLIS students. The lecture series ended with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Anila Sulochana. The program report was prepared by Ms. Rittu Anilkumar, 4th Semester MLIS Student of the Department.

The glimpses of the program is given below:











Department congrats to all who attended the program and taken the benefit to listen Mr. Mohit Garg on the very important and emerging topic in academics and research.

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