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Data Science AN EMERGING CONCEPT FOR STUDY WITH A HUGE SCOPE

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multidisciplinary field that utilizes scientific inferences and mathematical algorithms to extract comprehensive statements and insights from a large number of structured or unstructured information is known as Data Science. The said a l g o r i t h m s a re i m p l e m e nte d t h ro u g h computer programs which are usually operated on powerful hardware since it requires a tremendous amount of processing.

Data Science is a mixture of machine learning, statistical mathematics, computer science, domain knowledge, data analysis, and visualization. The essence of Data Science is ‘data’ itself. It is obvious that from improper data, no amount of algorithmic computation can draw meaningful insights. It consists of different types of data, for instance, text data, image data, time dependent data, and video data, etc.

If we talk about the origin of this concept it is still unclear as of when and where it was

originally developed. In 2001, William S Cleveland came up with the term ‘Data Science’. The publications of the ‘CODATA Data Science Journal’ by the International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology and the ‘Journal of Data Science’ by Columbia University, respectively kick-started the journey of Data Science in between April 2002 and January 2003.

This was the time when the ‘dot com’ space was in its growth spectrum, due to which a widespread adoption of the internet took place, inevitably creating huge volume of information or data as we say it simply. The advancement in technology gave data science a potential for growth and in full swing, it led to the faster and cheaper computation of data in no time. Collectively, this whole phenomenon was responsible for the launch of the concept, ‘Data Science’ in the world.

Today, looking at how the world runs on internet and data one can conclude that without data collection or analysis, everything will fall apart. There is data everywhere starting from, running an institution, a business, educational institutions to even government offices, there will be a lot of data that has to be to be analyzed and sorted. With the influence of internet increasing at a breakneck speed, the quantity of incoming data has increased in folds that it has now become a necessity to have a team of people to handle the data.

Considering how there is an increase demand for people working in data science fields,

various universities and colleges are offering Data Science majors and minors. Recognizing the same and our quest to find institutions offering majors in Data Science compelled us to derive this edition titled, The 10 Best Data Science Training Institutes in India 2020.

Featured on the cover of the issue is Innomatics. The institute has developed courses for enthusiasts who aim to pursue a promising career in Data Science. We have also hand-picked few other institute including DataTrained, Inventateq, Social Parichar, and Praxis Business School for offering high quality education.

We would also like to list down few other institutes for their extraordinary service in data educations sector; iDeators Software, International School of Engineering, Escalera Technologies, Expertzlab, Indras Academy. While flipping the pages make it a note to read articles penned by data science experts and other educators. The articles give an insight into the future of Data Science.

Hope this edition of ours enlightens you with this emerging field of study.

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Enabling Innovative Learning Opportunities for Data Science

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18 TECH BITES The Ever Growing Big Data

16 DATATRAINED Helping Youth Hone Skills and Become Employable

INVENTATEQ Steering the Youth towards Lucrative Career Opportunities

22 PRAXIS BUSINESS SCHOOL Creating managers for the digital future!

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Enabling Innovative Learning Opportunities for Data Science

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Nowadays, human decision making is becoming increasingly inadequate to deal with a never-ending expansion of the data. Therefore, companies are delving deeper into their data to increase efficiency, attain a greater competitive advantage and boost their bottom lines. To get these important insights, organizations are using Data Science, which helps in combining the disruption into categories and communicating their potential.

is evolved, disrupted and being used in all the sectors. Data Scientists hold the key to unveiling better solutions to traditional problems. But many companies across the industries are struggling to find skilled data scientists who can meet their diverse requirements. Furthermore, many existing Data scientists in the industries still struggle to build complex algorithms, organize and synthesize massive data to predict, analyze and drive strategies. For aspiring professionals who dream to break into the data science industry, are still unaware of the exact path to take the leap.

To get the crucial data and channelize its importance, Data Scientists have fostered new methodologies that maintain the balance with the data that

Keeping the above in mind and the vital role Data Scientists play in today’s world, Innomatics delved with the businesses across all industries and

ata today, holds a great deal of importance more than ever. It is powerful, enormous and disrupting the businesses in every way.

developed courses for enthusiasts who aim to pursue a promising career in Data Science. The institute provides a multitude of courses and training for job seekers, tech-geeks, existing Data Scientists who aspire to transform their career and excel by delivering tangible results to various stakeholders across an organization or business.

Adapting the Contemporary Approach Innomatics has come a long way since its humble beginning in 2018. Back then, the institute intended to ‘Transform the Career and Lives’ of individuals in the AI space and thus, created a balance between learning and implementing the real-time cases in businesses.

VISION AND MISSION Mission Innomatics is established on a mission to help businesses find the best prospects who can set a benchmark in improving the organizations’ growth with their real-time approaches.

The institute’s mission involves: 1) Developing a state-of-the-art benchmark in data science, 2) Transforming all fields, professions and sectors through the application of data science.

Vision Innomatics’s vision is to expand greatly into new horizons by creating the PAN India presence and implement data science research, more industry collaborations, educational programming, and the availability of cutting-edge tools and technologies.

because of the ambiance, innovative training methodologies and expert trainers.

Opening Doors to Opportunities

With its customer-focused training programs that accelerate tech capabilities, Innomatics empowers individuals to be industry-ready and help firms to reap benefits of data science technologies. The institute firmly believes and follows the practical approach rather than the theoretical one which prepares every student for industry challenges.

To Make students skillful, Innomatics works on a practical approach derived from the business case studies and challenges. Its 40+ trainers hailing from leading organizations such as Apple and Microsoft, have successfully trained over 50 batches with 1000 people who can identify and solve complex data analytics problems.

Preparing Holistically Innomatics believes that supportive environmental conditions encourage strong relationships and community among students and staff. These include relationships that foster attachment and emotional connection with a sense of belonging and purpose.

The institute conducts several hackathons, workshops, meetups to prepare students to be industry-ready and keep them engaged with the current trends in the Edtech world.

Innomatics provides students access to various engagement platforms where they can learn real-time problems and communicate with the industry experts.

Furthermore, it has also been awarded as the biggest training institutes

Innomatics has been featured in Times of India and awarded with The Times Education Icon Award for the best Data Science and Digital Marketing Category. Also, the institute has been awarded by Times Group as Best Data Science and Digital Marketing Insitute, at the Education Icon 2019-2020. Such prestigious awards and its quality of education helped the institute to become an authorized training partner for IBM. The institute has successfully collaborated with top-notch companies and possesses a dedicated placement vertical. With this placement cell, trainees can take advantage to enter the business world and solve the complexities.

1) We have been awarded by Times Group as Best DataScience and Digital Marketing Institute. Education Icon 2019-2020.

2) We are partnered with IBM and now we are authorised training partner for IBM. Nearly 30+ students with well-paid salaries have been placed in the fortune companies as of 2020. The institute continues to help over 1000 companies to recruit the best candidates, who can upskill the business requirements and elevate business growth.

Until now, the institute has solved 20+ business cases and helped 40+ industry experts, to leverage the business by resolving the complexities in AI, Data and Facial Recognition.

Views on the Industry According to Innomatics, Data Science

WORDS OF TRUST creates a great impact in every sector be it in the commercial areas - it helps in understanding the customer behaviors, securing the data, etc. In hospitality, Data Science helps to detect and analyze the diseases in prior, digital marketing to target the right audience, speech recognition, fraud and risk detection. Hence, Innomatics believes that Data Science will rule the world with its incredible eruption in the coming years.

Hence, the institute desires to explain and communicate the value of data science which it brings to the organization for a better decision making; demonstrate how methodologies can be applied within and across virtually in any sector to understand and optimize opportunities.

It also envisions innovation and better tools to improve how organizations gather information, curate, interpret and utilize data.

Investing in the Future Innomatics claims it doesn’t wish to develop its own business but consistently strives to be a bigger part of business transformation. Its motto is to train every student with the right skillset and help companies to recruit the right candidates.

In the next two years, Innomatics aims to create the PAN India presence and pave the way to create more Data Scientists. Apart from the training, it intends to bridge and maintain the balance between the businesses and jobs through its consulting services.

Apart from the existing courses, the institute aims to leave traces in other technologies such as Fintech, Cloud and Quantum Computing and aspires to put India at the top of the world in the analytics sector in the years to come.

Innomatics Alumni has spread across India in fortune companies. Here is what they have to say:

Innomatics Research Lab is one of the best data science training institute in Hyderabad. I joined here as soon as I completed my bachelor’s to attain a great job.

This team suggested me to go with a data science course; for the first two days, I heard the demo and just got impressed by their teaching and, with no second thought, choose this course. I’m almost about to complete my course, and no doubt, they are Turning me into a very well qualified data scientist.

- Vinay Keerthi

One of the best learning institutes in Hyderabad, I say!

In every aspect, the Innomatics research labs Institute has proved to be the best for me. The topics and projects covered in Machine Learning were real-time, and it helped me understand the basics along with high-level stuff, equally well. Thank you, Innomatics, for turning me into a Young data scientist!

- P V Meenakshy

I joined Innomatics as a student and an Intern at the end of December 2018. It has been a conscious experience to date. I got to work on some interesting projects and case studies as a Data Science Intern. The mentors at the Institute are talented, experienced, yet friendly.

They are always ready to help. It has been a great experience, and I am sure I will benefit a lot from it in my career.”

- Sai Chaitanya

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n the present era of rapidly-changing IT industry, it is important for students and educators to keep pace with the going-ons. Also, understanding where they stand amid competition, and the skills they need, are crucial to ascend the corporate ladder.

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The programs are tailored to meet industry standards, besides being offered for short periods.

Whereas, in regards to educators, identifying new knowledge and skills to sustain in the IT industry and its applications in the real world requires research. It helps the educators to give the students a more realistic picture of what the industry needs and the newer developments out there. Moreover, it lets them guide the students on how to be effective in newer roles that are necessary to these developments.

• Two years MBA Program • Ten months PG program in Data Science, Machine Learning and Neural Networks • Three years Full Stack Development Program for 12th pass students • Three years Management Program for 12th pass students • Nine months Cloud Computing Program

Nevertheless, educational institutions are finding it difficult in equipping the students with necessary knowledge and skills, for different reasons. The online Edtech platforms and institutions are not properly equipped, either by way of faculty or proper infrastructure.

DataTrained is a leading Analytics company, also specialized in providing Big Data solutions and Artificial Intelligence aided decision making for retail customers.

It has designed such an academic model that imparts international approach into the students’ minds. It helps the students convert themselves into corporate professionals ready to take on the ever-demanding corporate jobs.

Thus, every year, a majority of the workforce released into the job market is mediocre and under-skilled. These underachievers thus face trouble finding the right jobs.

DataTrained, an Edutech company appears to have identified the need to equip the students with necessary skills to traverse the constantly changing industry landscape. The organization, for students and professionals, has navigated its path by emphasizing on enhancing skills and building a good profile.

Inclusive Coverage Headquartered in Bangalore, DataTrained offers a host of industry-sponsored programs in Management, IT, Banking, HR, Finance, and Artificial Intelligence. The programs are integrated with latest software, real-world scenarios, and case studies, keeping pace with the latest industry requirements.

From offering study material, practice tests, and exciting tieups with Universities and Industry Partners, DataTrained helps youngsters to advance themselves in contemporary technologies. It has partnered with the leading universities like Cornell University, Purdue University, DY Patil University, and Open University.

On the modalities of the courses offered at the company, the students can either opt for certificate programs or diplomas.

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Following are the programs offered in collaboration with IIM Jobs and multinational companies like IBM:

Going beyond the traditional focus on data concepts, DataTrained takes a wider approach in introducing students to the real world of data. This includes an immersive development of logical reasoning and an inquiry-based approach tailored towards building data aptitude.

An Eminent Mastermind Rashid Khan, the Founder & CEO of DataTrained, has a decade of experience in the IT and training field. He believes, skill enhancement is the only way forward whereby India can develop a pool of talented professionals ready to face the inevitable technology revolution.

Mr. Rashid Khan has been instrumental for adding internship to the data science programs. His extensive experience across multiple industries and a deep analysis in the technology and education sector made him realize the loopholes and identify the responsibilities to do more. He regularly interacts with the industry veterans who help him to design and deploy latest programs.

Ever since setting up DataTrained, he has developed an inclination towards technology and its use to drive businesses

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and firms by inculcating knowledge into students who are going to drive the industry sector.

Live Experiences DataTrained is the only institute that has added ‘Internship’ as a core part of its curriculum.

It interacts with the analytics industry experts to build a curriculum that is focused more on practical knowledge and experiences.

Throughout all the programs it caters, it provides students with internship opportunities in a variety of fields, which in turn could keep them in good stead when they start to work. During internships, the students work on various projects or products related to Data Science and AI. A particularly intriguing internship thus makes their CV stand out from the crowd.

The Flagship Program DataTrained offers a Ten months PG Program in Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Students enrolled for the program undergo four months of live training and six months of online internship with partnered companies.

Most recently, the DataTrained 10 months PG program in Data Science, Machine Learning and Neural Networks topped the ranking of ‘Top 10 Data science/institutes in India’. This ranking was published by Analytics Jobs.

The program, in collaboration with IBM, introduces students to an integrated blended learning, making them experts in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. It leverages comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Data Science such as descriptive, predictive, prescriptive with both Statistical and ML algorithms.

The IBM Watson Cloud Lab As a part of previously mentioned 10 months course, students get exclusive access to IBM cognitive classes. These classes include self-learning content on Machine learning, Deep Learning, and Building Chatbots using Watson assistant.

Once the AI and Deep learning modules are completed, learners get access to its Cloud Lab which can be then accessed for six months. Students thereafter, can work on hands-on projects on AI, like building Chatbots, NLP systems, Speech to text bots etc.

Upon completion of this Master’s Program, candidates get certified from IBM and DataTrained. The accomplished candidates are recognized with: • USD 1200 worth of IBM cloud credits • A 24/7 access to IBM cloud platforms featuring IBM Watson

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Rashid Khan Founder & CEO at Data Trained and other software • Industry-recognized Master’s Certificate from DataTrained Education in collaboration with IBM A Glance at Career Opportunities and Exposures In the recent past, DataTrained underwent placement season activities. A total of 134 recruiters had participated to hire 350 students including 25 first time recruiters. The average salary offered to the students of management programs was 4.5 Lacs per annum, whereas the highest salary offered, was 21 lacs per annum. Moreover, students who opted for Data Science programs saw the maximum surge in salary offers. More than 52% of the students were placed with a package of over 10 lacs per annum.

Due to its consecutive recruitment drives and partnerships with national and multi-national companies, students at DataTrained get placed in least time. They start working at the end of the 1st year of the management program itself.

The Way Forward DataTrained already possesses two campuses in Noida. In the days to come, it is all set to inaugurate five more campuses in the major Indian metro cities, along with expansion plans in UK and US markets.

In the forthcoming months, DataTrained is planning to launch a program called ‘Entrepreneurship Essentials’, which will continue for one month. The one month Classroom based entrepreneurship program aims to kick-start businesses.

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The Ever Growing

Big Data s data, generated by services like web browser histories, social media activities or even fitness apps, continues to grow, the demand for data management and analysis is also increasing proportionately.

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It has offered a range of benefits to businesses and organizations including, efficiency, improved turnaround time, fault tolerance, and availability. These are some aspects that have significantly lowered the cost of processing.

Big data has become more popular with the advent and increasing use of mobile technologies which is creating indefinite user data.

Given below are some important features of big data tools that have potentially simplified the process:

Customer Acquisition and Retention Customer is the most important asset any business depends on and no business can claim success without having established a strong customer base. Hence, understanding customer and their behavior is critical for both online and offline business success.

The advent of big data is allowing businesses to analyze customer patterns and trends. To meet market demands and competition, businesses are providing personalized experiences to customers. They leverage every bit of information about the customers and shoppers. This data is helping businesses to strategize their next moves from innovative offerings to everything it says that is going to serve the customers best.

Connectors: There are many systems and applications in the world. Big data integration tool has many pre-built connectors which minimize the operational time of the team.

Open-source: The open-source architectures typically provide more flexibility while helping to avoid vendor lock-in.

Portability: Since companies are moving to hybrid cloud models, big data integration enables to run the operations anywhere: on-premises, hybrid and in the cloud.

Cloud Compatibility: The big data integration tool offers single-cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud environment. It enables to run in containers and use server-less computing to minimize the cost of big data processing.

Driving Innovation and Product Development The Businesses Embracing Big Data Organizations are streamlining as much data as would be technically possible before designing new product lines and re-designing the existing products.

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Life Sciences: Clinical research is expensive and a slow procedure. Advanced analytics, artificial intelligence

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(AI) and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) have unlocked the potential improving speed and efficiency at every stage of clinical research. It can now deliver more intelligent and automated solutions.

Banking: Financial institutions process large amount of unstructured data to make sound financial decisions. Big data analytics has allowed them to access the information they need when they need it, by eliminating overlapping, redundant tools and systems.

Manufacturing: Manufacturers wrestle with difficult problems - from complex supply chains, motion applications, labor constraints to equipment breakdowns.

Big data analytics to the manufacturing industry has allowed competitive organizations to discover new cost saving opportunities and revenue opportunities.

A Key to Competitiveness and Opportunities Big data has evolved as a knowledge repository increasing opportunities and competition as well. Also, demand is one of the influencing factors that plays an important role in benefit and growth of an organization.

Since the evolution of Big Data, the IT industry has unveiled numerous job opportunities for the IT professionals. As the demand for processed and analyzed data is increasing, the demand for different kinds of big data professionals is also rising.

Besides big data Analytics, there are many other career options such as data scientist, big data manager, data engineer, and machine learning researchers available in this sector.

What’s next for big data?

Healthcare: In the health care industry patient records, health plans, insurance information and other types of information are difficult to manage. Application of the new technology can analyze large amounts of information, both structured and unstructured. The healthcare providers can now efficiently provide lifesaving diagnosis and treatment options in least amount of time.

Government: Certain government agencies face challenges- tighten the budget without compromising quality or productivity. This is particularly troublesome with law enforcement agencies, which are struggling to keep crime rates down with relatively scarce resources.

But, integration of big data analytics and streamlining operations using technology has given a more holistic view of criminal activities.

Retail: Customer service has evolved in the past several years, as savvier shoppers expect retailers to understand exactly what and when they need it. Big data is helping retailers to meet these customer demands. Armed with endless amount of data from customer loyalty programs, buying habits and other sources, retailers now have an in-depth understanding of their customers. They can also predict trends, recommend new products and boost profitability.

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With the explosion of cloud technologies, the need to wrangle an ever-growing sea of data has become a ground-floor consideration for designing digital architecture. In a world where transactions, inventory, and even IT infrastructure exist in a purely virtual state, a good big data approach creates a holistic overview by ingesting data sources which will impact the organization.

The big data trends point towards a continual reduction in on-site physical infrastructure and an increasing reliance on virtual technologies. This evolution will bring an increasing dependence upon tools and partners that can handle a world where machines are being replaced by bits and bytes that emulate them.

Big data isn’t just an important part of the future, it may be the future itself. The way that the business, organizations, and the IT professionals who support them approach their missions will continue to be shaped by evolution in how data will move, stored and understood. T R

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Rahul Puri Head of Academics

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Education

Breeds the Right Information

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t is everywhere in this day and age. Whether we like it or not, social media and the digital age means that we are bombarded by more information and news than any generation in history. At times the overload is so much that it is hard to focus on what is important much less try to figure out what indeed is the actual truth with so many conflicting stories circulating on a variety of platforms, all suggesting they have it ‘right’ and more importantly - ‘first’.

We can blame all this on technology but the real culprits here are us. Using a wonderful and historic technology like the internet for such shameless purposes of selfpropagating messages to fulfil sometimes unscrupulous and many times greed based interests is extremely low but it is the reality of the world we live in so better that we learn how to distinguish the real from the fake and

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rahul Puri is the Head of Academics of India’s finest film, communication and creative education institute, Whistling Woods International & Managing Director of India’s leading entertainment company, Mukta Arts Ltd. A business graduate from Kings College London, he started his career as an investment banker at UBS Warburg. Rahul Puri moved to Mumbai in 2002 and worked in the sector of Corporate Finance & Strategy before he joined Mukta Arts Ltd. to produce and distribute Indian films. Rahul contributes to all aspects of the company now including production, distribution, financing, marketing, and exhibition.

He was keenly involved in the setup of Whistling Woods International and now is setting up and building out a chain of Cinemas under the brand name of Mukta A2 Cinemas.

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the lies and falsehoods from actual facts. ‘Fake news’ is a way of life today with people ditching serious, well researched journalism and information that takes time to collate and verify with WhatsApp forwards that are instant and usually sensationalist and almost always, utter nonsense.

So for the younger generation, which has not grown up relying on newspapers and Television coverage (which by the way is also quickly becoming corrupted by this ‘breaking news’ environment in a bid to stay relevant), their news sources are what they read on their smart phones through their social media platforms of choice or through their messaging apps that send and receive unverified information faster than the speed of thought.

How then can education be positioned to help this generation distinguish the false narratives from the real truths? How do educators help young people read the information they are presented and ensure that they can spot the biases, slants and untruths strategically presented within to shift perceptions and alter our understanding of incidents and happenings to suit a few people with vested interests?

Critical reasoning is something that must become compulsory in all schools so that students growing up can logically and rationally reason out things and thereby develop a sense of quickly understanding whether something that has been said, is likely true or not. This is a vital skill which is lacking in a majority of school curriculums which try to further the cause of memory-based knowledge of ‘facts’, which are destined to fade over time rather than giving young people the skill to quickly reason out a problem given to them and use simple techniques to judge the best course of action.

Standard school curriculum should quickly move away from asking objective questions which rely on recall and head their assessments to subjective questions which call for opinion based on logical reasoning and choices which can then be reviewed and questioned by teachers.

This gives young people the basic platform to approach the barrage of information which is flowing at them and rationalize what looks right and wrong quickly through simple logical questioning.

Students must also be compelled to learn about the media. This seems strange because there are a number of courses like drama and film that are in some curriculum

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and syllabus around the world but again, these are craft based teachings and not really teachings that focus on criticism of the media platform itself. It’s fine to learn to critique a piece of content, but what about critiquing the platform that distributes that particular content. A solid understanding of the media and the way it works, both as a platform as well as a business will give young people a solid education into what to be vary of and how to question the things that the media is circulating in the name of ‘fact’. This is extremely vital today with the expansion of digital media into our homes and personal spaces.

What sources of information are credible? How to look for inconsistencies within text? How to spot bias in words, language, mannerisms, images, etc.? All these can be taught to young people in a means that gets them to question. The key here, which many of you have probably noticed, is for that teaching itself not to be biased or prejudiced in the first place or else students will see things only from the perspective lens of their faculty. However, once taught, these are skills that students can use to apply to their own judgements as well. And I have seen many a student over-turn their own opinion, which they believed well informed, after researching into a multitude of sources and removing their prism of bias that they viewed an incident through.

It is critical therefore to first start this exercise by students themselves understanding that they can only open themselves up to searching for real information in this information overloaded age, once they are clear about what their own biases are. Everyone has them.

You reading this, me writing it. We are all a function of our experiences and the things we have seen, read and heard around us. All rational and critical thinking begins when we question these in a way to remove the blinkers of myopia that constrains us. Then perhaps we can begin to see what is correct information and this is something only education and the removal of ignorance can do.

Thus it is vital for schools and colleges to begin to build into their learning pedagogy an ability for students to shape their own individuality not just in creativity but first in the lens that they view the world around them in.

This then makes all education and learning unique and valuable to every single student listening.

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ndia, one of the biggest startup hubs on the planet is seen as one of the desirous places when it comes to investing. In today’s startup buzz, data science has become an essential skill, due to the crucial nature of data and information. It attracts many professionals from all industries because of their interest and handsome salaries.

However, many students and professionals struggle to harness the subjects’ necessary attributes.

Hence, organizations across India are taking initiatives to fill the massive employment gap in the Data Science sector.

They are devising ways to equip the youth of the country with the required skills. Among them, SocialPrachar is a prominent name when it comes to delivering quality education and training in terms of Data Science. It is India’s full-service Digital Agency and Professional Courses Training Partner.

The Enthusiastic Duo SocialPrachar started its journey back in 2014 from a small 2BHK house in Kukatpally, Hyderabad with a team of three people. The members included the tech and marketing enthusiasts, Divya Channa & Mahesh Babu Channa. The couple started SocialPrachar with a mission of providing quality education to students who are looking for joboriented courses.

students to master the job-ready concepts. SocialPrachar conducts one-on-one personal sessions with expert trainers & mentors for its students to ensure they master the concepts. It has an assessment type portal, DIGITAL LEARNING PORTAL which helps students to check their knowledge with short and simple questionnaires.

By regularly conducting Hackathons, the institute rewards its students for their efforts and helps students to re-discover their inner strength and abilities.

For its remarkable work, SocialPrachar received ‘Academy of the Year 2019’ at 7th Asian Education Summit 2019, Mumbai.

Creating Opportunities SocialPrachar believes that its success depends on its students’ success. To achieve the same, it has a dedicated HR team for all job support. The institute has trained over 5000+ students in the last five years with 100% job placements after successful completion of the course. It has served over 100+ clients on Digital Marketing and Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS).

It has corporate tie-ups with around 1000+ companies that offer internship opportunities for all its students.

To ensure their goal is achieved, both of them invested all of their savings for office infrastructure and built a small team for operations. The goal was to use top-notch talent, state-of-the-art technology, and infrastructure to deliver a pleasant and premium experience of learning to its students.

The institute has formed alumni of 3000+ people for a daily dose of job updates. They also refer to SocialPrachar’s students for opportunities in their respective organizations.

Uplifting Students’ Confidence and Spirit

The high demand for quality coaching for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence means that fees are always high.

Students have to pay a huge sum between 45,000 to 1 lakh to enroll into these coaching classes which makes things unpredictable for them and their guardians.

With great investments in its infrastructure, SocialPrachar has created a productive learning ambiance for all its learners. It has an AI Lab for students to work on real-world projects with mentor’s guidance. It uses high-end GPU systems which helps students to work on Heavy Projects.

The institute’s advanced industry-ready curriculum helps

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Making Learning Affordable

Herein, SocialPrachar comes and makes learning affordable. Its fees depend on its costs in thoroughly screening, onboarding and training Expert trainers, and

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providing the students with a pleasant learning experience.

Its course prices deliver the maximum value to its students.

The institute states that it did not want to get into competitive pricing and at the same time, not want to double or triple the prices with no rationale.

and manage emergency response. As the utilization of data science in these industries matures, SocialPrachar believes other industries will also emerges with new applications for data science.

Views on Data Science Sector A Dream for the Nation According to SocialPrachar, Data Science disruption is taking place in diverse industries like Edutech, Fintech, Healthcare, and Transportation where it is growing at a minimum of 2X year-to-year.

The institute believes that companies in consumer lending are redefining how to assess creditworthiness using Machine Learning algorithms. Healthcare startups are using data science to move ever-closer to personalized medicine.

They are using artificial intelligence to examine images like X-rays and MRIs to diagnose problems quickly and accurately.

SocialPrachar claims to be a pioneer in providing Data Science & Artificial Intelligence courses with a perfect in-house team of experts and mentors from IITs & IIMs. It has been constantly rated 5 by all of its 5000+ students and clients.

SocialPrachar wants to continue its mission of delivering the same quality of education to reach its mission of training 10,000+ job-worthy candidates by 2025, ensuring India progresses and achieves the zeniths of success. for more details : https://socialprachar.com/

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