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Authored by Raghunathan Rengaswamy,  IIT Madras Data Science, ML, AI are the flavors of the season all over the world and India is no exception.   Interest in these techniques is at a fever pitch; academicians and industrial practitioners alike are exploring the fundamental underpinnings and application potential of these techniques.   As a result, data science is being evaluated for implementation in all imaginable fields and sub-fields.   Sports is one such area with tremendous potential for data science applications.   While sports analytics has been around for a long time, sabermetrics being a prime example, the scale of what can be achieved now with analytics is quite stupendous.   Disparate data from various sources can be collected and analyzed towards making decisions regarding almost all aspects of any sport.   Take cricket, which is the focus of this blog, as an example.   Ball-by-ball commentary, video feed, bats that are actual IoT devices producing fascinating informa

Hi friends. Many apologies for not communicating for a long time due to certain logistics issues that were unavoidable. We are now geared up to bring to you some exciting articles on this forum soon. Meanwhile hope all of you are aware of the most happening Data Science conference in India - CoDS - COMAD, which is going to be held at Hyderabad from January 5th to 7th. Registrations are open - quickly grab your seat. There is an exciting line up of keynote and invited talks, presentations, demos and much more. More details are available at https://cods-comad.in/ Do join us at Hyderabad.

Shourya Roy, Vice President, IKDD Head and Vice President, Amex AI Labs Balaraman Ravindran, President, IKDD Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI,   IIT Madras This article is an overview of history and activities of ACM SIGKDD India Chapter, popularly known as IKDD. The north-star vision of IKDD has been to bring together researchers, faculty, students, government and industry professionals interested in theory and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generally and Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science (DS) specifically. Towards that, IKDD has been organizing two flagship events viz. (i) ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (CoDS-COMAD) since 2014 and (ii) Data Science in India event which collocates with ACM SIGKDD conference since 2015. In 2012, as the “Data Science” community had started showing signs of steady growth in India, an i