Going by its philosophy of imparting quality education and industry relevant skills to all its students, the Dept. of Computer Science of VVM’s Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics in association with Revert Technologies, Reach Partners of EDC IIT-Roorkee, organized a One Week National Level workshop on Big Data & Hadoop held from 17-22 July 2017. Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics is a Zonal Center for conducting National Summer Training Programmes (NSTP). 31 BCA Students, one student from Manipal Institute of Technology, one Postgraduate Student and 10 faculty members from the College & other colleges across Goa participated in this workshop.
The Resource Persons for the workshop were Mr. Pankaj Singh, Senior Research Engineer, Finland Labs, New Delhi & Ms. Ragini Chauhan from Revert Technologies. Principal Dr. Prita Mallya inaugurated the session by welcoming the Resource Persons and the participants. She emphasized that students need to continuously update themselves with the latest trends and technologies required in the IT industry. The first session focused on introducing participants to the types of structured, semi structured and unstructured data available. Mr. Singh then moved on to explain properties of BIG Data i.e. volume, velocity, variety and veracity. The next session covered the Hadoop architecture including HDFS, MapReduce and YARN. During the week-long Hands-on Training, the Participants learnt installation & application of various Bigdata Technologies namely Hadoop, Hive, PIG, SQOOP & HBase. The Students learned to set up a Hadoop environment on the Linux platform and virtual machine using Horton–Sandbox. The entire workshop was interactive where students were given sample datasets to carry out analytics.
On the final day, participants were given a task to perform, based on which they were evaluated on a written & a practical test. Six participants – Ishan Borkar, Alston Rebello, Prachita Nayak, Nelufer Furtado, Dievon Fernandes and Shreya Kamat were awarded Merit Certificates. These 6 students also won the opportunity to showcase their skills at the IIT Roorkee campus.
The Hadoop and Big Data Analytics workshop was the second in the series of NSTP workshops conducted at the College campus. The session was very well appreciated by the participants as it opened up another new avenue for them to pursue as a career option.
