Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 25: National Workshop on Data Analytics through R today commences at University of Jammu.
The workshop will be held for one week from November 25 to November 30.
About 85 participants from different parts of the country including Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh besides Jammu and Kashmir are participating in the workshop.
Prof Anju Bhasin, Vice Chancellor, Cluster University was chief guest on the occasion, who while speaking threw light on the significant role of computing and statistical tools and techniques in order to compete with the global research.
Prof Shalabh, the resource person for this workshop emphasized upon the importance and essentiality of the software R as a research tool for multidisciplinary research approach.
Earlier, HoD Prof Pawan Kumar in his welcome address stressed upon the need of such workshops for young faculty members and researchers.
Prof Rahul Gupta, Director HRDC, University of Jammu expressed his views about the requirement of statistical and computing tools in the present scenario to carry out qualitative and quantitative research.
Dr V K Shivgotra presented formal vote of thanks.
The proceedings of the inaugural function were conducted by Neha Sharma, Research Scholar of the Department.
Among others present were Prof KS Charak, Prof Romesh Kumar, HoD Mathematics, Prof Pankaj Srivastava, Prof SS Sambyal, Prof Deepankar Sengupta, Prof Arun Bharti, Er Anik Gupta and Dr Dharminder Magotra.