Event Details

Data Analytics Training to CDIT Employees

ICFOSS is organising three days training on FOSS Data Analytics with R and Python for CDIT employees from 10th to 12th of November, 2017. Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets in order to draw conclusions about the information they contain, increasingly with the aid of specialized systems and software. Data analytics technologies and techniques are widely used in commercial industries to enable organizations to make more-informed business decisions and by scientists and researchers to verify or disprove scientific models, theories and hypotheses. FOSS data Analytic Training Contains three modules which includes Python Programming, Open GIS and R Programming.

Schedule of Training

The training shall be for three days, which will contain theory classes and hands-on training. The detailed schedule may be seen as below:-

Day 1

• Introduction to Python Programming

• Python libraries and data structures

• Basics of Python for Data Analysis

Day 2

• Introduction to GIS, Spatial Data - Vector\Raster

• Overview of QGIS

• Georeferencing Cadastral Maps

• Managing Projections and Coordinate systems

• Basic GIS Analysis (Spatial / Non spatial Query, Buffer analysis)

• Python QGIS (PyQGIS) Integration

Day 3

• Installation and first usage

• Data structures in R

• Familiarizing functions and Packages

• Running R Scripts

• Importing and exporting data from and to R

• R STUDIO (Intro, capabilities and use)

• Plotting with ggplot

• Introduction to shiny package

• Handling data using R

• Basic stats in R (introduction to statistical analysis using R)

• PCA using R

• Case study