On 2nd March, 2022, Eco for Be-ites collective of The Bhawanipur Education Society College organised a seminar on Data Science. The speaker for the event was Professor Amit Das.
Professor Amit Das has a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a post-graduate diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta. He has earned his PhD in Information & Decision Sciences from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
The seminar began at 3:00 P.M. presided by Prof. Dilip Shah – Dean of Student Affairs, BESC, who felicitated Prof. Das with a Memento of Honour. An exceptional 2 hours of deep diving into the world of data science, Prof. Das with the help of demographics and statistics solved 2 complex problems on data sets and gave the students a brief idea about how data science works in different domains ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Management Systems.
The event concluded at around 5 P.M. and Professor Das was effective in giving students insights on the basics of Data Science and the opportunities it holds for today’s generation. His expertise proved helpful in encouraging students to know more about the vast world of data science. The collective would be back with such interactive seminars and workshops in days to come.
A field trip was organized by the Departments of Sociology and Political Science for the students of semester 5 and 3, respectively, on December 03, 2022. A total number of 80 students accompanied by 14 teachers visited 3 museums of Kolkata—Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral home, Raja Rammohan Roy’s ancestral home and Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral home. As …
With many previous drives in the past, The Bhawanipur Education Society College hosted yet another Placement Drive on its campus on the 29th of June 2024, starting at 11:00 AM and ending at 6 P.M. in the Concept Hall with more than 130 students from all semesters across all disciplines taking part in it. The …
An interactive session on ‘Fundamentals of statistics in communication research’ was organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, The Bhawanipur Education Society College on 25th & 26th November 2022. The keynote speaker of this workshop was Ms. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, of Sister Nibedita Government General Degree College for Girls, Kolkata. This workshop …
The Department of English, The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata, organized Peer Webinar: Chapter 10 on August 30, 2022 at 7 pm. Ms Chitrangada Deb was the speaker for the session, and her paper was titled as ” Strange ‘Bodies’: Investigating Techno-Violence and Organ Trading in Harvest”. The event was held on Google Meet and …
Seminar on Data Science
“Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.”
– Hilary Mason
On 2nd March, 2022, Eco for Be-ites collective of The Bhawanipur Education Society College organised a seminar on Data Science. The speaker for the event was Professor Amit Das.
Professor Amit Das has a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a post-graduate diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta. He has earned his PhD in Information & Decision Sciences from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
The seminar began at 3:00 P.M. presided by Prof. Dilip Shah – Dean of Student Affairs, BESC, who felicitated Prof. Das with a Memento of Honour. An exceptional 2 hours of deep diving into the world of data science, Prof. Das with the help of demographics and statistics solved 2 complex problems on data sets and gave the students a brief idea about how data science works in different domains ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Management Systems.
The event concluded at around 5 P.M. and Professor Das was effective in giving students insights on the basics of Data Science and the opportunities it holds for today’s generation. His expertise proved helpful in encouraging students to know more about the vast world of data science. The collective would be back with such interactive seminars and workshops in days to come.
Reported by – Ayush Kumar Lodha
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