Report of the International Conference on Data Science and Analytics

Rathinam College of Arts and Science, Department of Computer Science organized International Conference on Data Science & Analytics “ICDSA’17” on 23^rd Sep 2017 in association with ICT Academy, IJSER and BONFRING. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Ir. Frank Cremer, Big Data Architect, Geomatik, Netherlands and he delivered the inaugural address. Conference theme was presented by Dr. R. Muralidharan, Principal, Rathinam College of Arts and Science. Presidential address was delivered by Dr. Madan A. Sendhil, Chairman, Rathinam Group and the felicitation address was given by Prof. R. Manickam, CEO, Rathinam Group.

Followed by the inauguration there were two different technical sessions handled by two different keynote speakers. Session I was handled by Mr. Sivaram Easwaran, Technical Instructor, IBM Career Education under the topic of “DevOps: What, Why and How”. Session II was handled by Dr. M. Kannan, Asst Prof, Dept of CSA, SCSVMV University under the topic of “ Astro Mining”. After the technical session, Participants of various colleges had presented their paper.

In this conference around 300 papers had been received. Short listed participants had presented their papers under their respective topics. Participants of the conference were from Netherlands, Malaysia, Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Bangalore. Also, call for paper broucher for CSIR sponsored National Conference on IOT to be conducted during 22^nd & 23^rd December 2017 was released.

The motive of the conference is to stress the importance of Data Analytics. And it had insisted the three things which are Cost reduction; Faster, better decision making; New products and services.