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SOPORE FEBRUARY : –Today On 15th of Feb. 2023, the Division of Agricultural Economics and Statistics, Faculty of Agriculture, Wadura SKUAST-K inaugurated its second Seven Days’ MSME Skill Development training programme on “Business Statistics Using R, Excel & SAS”. The aim of the training is to equip the students and participants with business statistics, data science, its analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Block chain, Supply/Value Chain, and other various statistical and economic techniques used in business management. At the beginning, Course Co-ordinator, Prof Tariq Ahmad Raja, Head, Division of Agriculture Economics and Statistics, spoke on the topic ‘Journey of Statistics to Data Science’. He enjoined upon the participants to develop interest in the subject of Statistics, Economics, Computers & Data Science to keep pace with the changing times. He impressed upon the participants to get familiar with R, Excel, SAS & other Software Languages which forms the core of the Data Analytics. The participants were enthusiastic to be part of the event.
The Co-Coordinators, Dr Showket Maqbool, Associate professor and Dr. Faheem Wani, Assistant Professor gave the deep insight into the subject and impressed upon the participants to learn basics of data science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, etc. for their smarter beginning in their future endeavours. The training program has been designed in such a way to cover the present day need in business and entrepreneurship. To revitalize and revolutionize the education system there is a dire need and necessity to learn Statistics, Computer Aids and Programming Skills.
At the end, Dr. Sajad Abdullah Saraf, Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, talked about the business economics and entrepreneurship development, and also presented the formal vote of thanks to all the participants of the training programme.
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