Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: The valedictory function of national workshop on Data Analytics through R was held today at University of Jammu.
The workshop was held for one week from November 25 to 30 wherein about 85 participants from Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh besides Jammu and Kashmir participated.
Prof. Manoj K Dhar, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu was the chief guest on the occasion and Prof. Shalabh, IIT Kanpur, the Resource Person was the guest of honour.
Among other dignitaries were Prof. Jigar Mohammed, former DRS; Prof Rahul Gupta, Director HRDC; Prof. K.S Charak, Prof. Pankaj Srivastava, Dr. Satinder Kumar, Dr Sunil Kumar, Dr V.K Shivgotra and Dr Parmil Kumar.
At the outset of the valedictory function HoD Prof. Pawan Kumar shared the importance of such workshops for young faculty members and researchers.
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.
Prof. Manoj K Dhar, University of Jammu expressed his views about the requirement of such statistical and computing tools in the present scenario to carry out high dimensional qualitative and quantitative research. He also distributed certificates to the participants.
The proceedings were conducted by Neha Sharma, Research Scholar. The closing ceremony ended with the vote of thanks.