ISLAMABAD ( Web News )
COMSTECH organized international webinar on Big Data Analytics: A Lucrative Tool for OIC. Prof. Dr. S. Ejaz Ahmed from faculty of Math and Science, Brock University, Canada delivered this webinar.
He said, the field of big data is at top in emerging technologies for many years. He talked about descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Dr. Ejaz said, if you want to become a data scientist you have to learn descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive data skills. Extracting data from big data called data science, he described.
Dr. Ejaz said, as data science jargon has begun to flood into government, businesses, and social circles, navigating statistical information and tools can be an arduous and daunting task for policy makers. The rapid growth in the size and scope of data sets in a variety of disciplines have naturally led to the usage of the term, Big Data.
He said that the analysis of data is important in multiple research fields such as engineering, social media networks, bioinformatics, personalized medicine, environment, neuroscience, astronomy, nanoscience, and financial studies among others.
He pointed out that there are many challenging questions. For example, how to acquire, manage, process, analyze, and make sense of big data? Clearly, big data is the future of research in a host of disciplines, and trans-disciplinary programs are required to develop the skills of data science.
His presentation guided the participants from the basics of big data analytics into a deeper discussion of how to handle unconventionally large data matrices in a multitude of applications.
Dr. Ejaz said that the bias in the data collection and modelling process yields misleading results. He said, statistical bias affects analytical modeling. Dr. Ejaz suggested that it is important for policymakers and business professionals to understand the analytics done behind the scenes; which allows them to communicate results to key stakeholders with confidence.
Dr. S. Ejaz Ahmed is professor and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Brock University, Canada. He is an internationally known scholar, educator, and an accomplished researcher.