Welcome to the Data Science Blog

Interested authors please email your articles within 1000 words to datascience-blog@india.acm.org with “Contribution to Datascience Blog” as the subject. Please mention Blog Title, Author Names, Email and Affiliation of all authors clearly followed by the Blog Content Some guidelines for blog posts are: · It may feature research or entrepreneurial activities undertaken by practitioners in India.  The article should have proper references.  It should be written in simple English. It should not be rehash of technical papers or tutorials on teaching Data Science. It can be a post from organizers about upcoming innovative activities calling for wider participation by Indians · 

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

Hi everybody! We are happy to announce the start of a new blog that will feature Data Science activities in India. These can be accessed and subscribed to at https://acm-datascience-blog.blogspot.com . The objective of the blog is to provide a platform for all those working in the area of Data Science - as researchers, educators, practitioners and policy makers to share ideas, opinions and activities undertaken across different organizations in India leading to better awareness and networking.   Everyone is invited to contribute. It may take at most a week for the blog to appear as it is moderated by a steering committee of the following members: ·          S. Sudarshan - IIT Bombay ·          Jayant Haritsa - IISc ·          B. Ravindran – IIT Madras ·          Manish Gupta – Videoken India ·          Shourya Roy - Amex ·          Anand Deshpande – Persistent Systems ·          Lipika Dey - TCS Research Some guidelines for blog posts are: ·          It