The RDI Cell, Department of Library and Information Science, and FDP Cell of the College jointly organized a session on the topic “Secondary Data Sources”, on 2nd December 2022 for all the teaching staff of the College. The Resource Person for the session was Dr. Sandhya Krishnan, Assistant Professor, SAMSOE, NMIMS. The Resource Person addressed the participants through video conferencing, while the participants were seated in the Smart classroom where they could see the Resource Person and her presentation. 42 faculties attended.
Vice Principal, Dr. Edwin Barreto welcomed Dr. Sandhya and the participants at the beginning of the session. Ms. Manasi Rege introduced the Resource Person to the participants.
Dr. Sandhya spoke about various online sources of secondary data that the faculties can make use of for their research purpose. She also spoke about different ways in which data is structured, such as cross section, time series, panel data, and pooled cross section data. She then spoke about the differences between primary and secondary data sources before proceeding to the main topic of the session.
She guided the faculty about the data sources for various fields like finance and economics, social sector, government sector, as well as for the worldwide data. For every sector/field, she spoke about the sources that provide data for free and which are paid. She also showed on the screen the details of the actual data that is presently available on the websites of many such sources.
The session was compered by Mr. Shreyas Desai, and Vote of Thanks was proposed by Dr. Maithili Naik. The session was coordinated by Dr. Maithili Naik, Convenor of RDI Cell, Ms. Swati Bhat, Convenor of FDP Cell, and Ms. Manasi Rege, Librarian, Department of Library and Information Sciences. Mr. Shreyas Desai was the teacher in charge for the session.
