Dr. Vikas Khullar, Associate Professor, Chitkara University, Rajpura, was the expert speaker for this hands-on workshop. The objective behind the Workshop was to give practical training in the exploration of tools for visual analytics.

The Workshop covered the growth potential of data science and analytics and its relevance in the business scenario. Big data is becoming all-pervasive in business as most business solutions are backed by data-driven solutions. Dr. Khullar started his discussion with an introduction to Power BI tool followed by the practical demonstration about data preparation, data cleaning, visually-based data recognition, interactive dashboards and augmented analytics. Dr. Khullar also introduced the concept of Pandas and its working to the students