The Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering, Design, and Automation (SEDA) organized a 2-days workshop on “Big Data Analytics Tools” for the students of B.Tech. CSE. Mr.Rocky Bhatia, Solutions Architect at Adobe, was the resource person of the Workshop, holding expertise in data engineering, system design, architecture, cloud tech, data science, and other technology areas. The objective of the Workshop was to make the students comfortable with the tools and techniques required in handling large amounts of datasets. 

Dr. Vikrant Sharma, Professor, and Dean-SEDA welcomed all the participants and experts of the Workshop. The contents covered in the Workshop included: Introduction to Big Data, Distributed Computing, HDFS Architecture, Blocks, Replication, Map Reduce, Hadoop, Hive Query Language, YARN, NoSQL, HBase, Oozie, Real-time Data Mining using Spark Streaming, Elastic Search, Kibana, Kafka. It was an interactive session where students actively participated in hands-on training and enquired curiously about career options in the data science domain.  Sh. Gurdeep Singh Sihra, the Pro-Chancellor, of GNA University congratulated all the participants for completing the course and also to organizers of the event. He said, “This event is simply the beginning for providing solutions to make a better future and advised the students to take pride in being a part of this prestigious course and wished all the participants great success.” Dr.V.K. Rattan, the Vice–Chancellor, of GNA University appreciated all the participants and encouraged them to be part of such events as this is one of the emerging technologies and highly in demand.  Dr. Monika Hanspal, Dean of Academics, GNA University interacted with participants, highlighted the significance of Big Data, and expressed that these technologies and hands-on practices will make students industry ready. Dr. Hemant Sharma, the Pro Vice-Chancellor thanked Dr. Anurag Sharma, Professor, Head CSE, and organizers for organizing such a great event and ensured all the participants that such events will be planned soon.