VirtusaPolaris supports inaugural Jaffna ‘Big Data Workshop’
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VirtusaPolaris supported the inaugural Jaffna Big Data Workshop organised by Colombo Big Data Meetup Group and held recently at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna, Kilinochchi.
The session began with Dinesh Priyankara, Microsoft MVP and Founder/Principal Architect at dinesQL delivering a session on “Processing Big Data – the Microsoft Way”, explaining the process of big data using Microsoft tools. Dinesh Asanka, Microsoft MVP and Senior Architect at VirtusaPolaris then delivered a session on “Data Mining with Weka”, speaking on data mining concepts and Weka, which is a well-known open source tool for data mining, according to a media release from Virtusa.
Selvarajah Selvendra, Associate Architect at VirtusaPolaris then presented on the topic “Churning of Big Data for Better Value”, which discussed insights on turning big data into valuable information. Following this, Robinson Prashanthan, CEO at Innovay and Online Business Consultant at Internet (Web) Marketing Strategist delivered a session on “Social Media and Big Data” on analysing big data generated by social media and gathering insights from social networks.
The Colombo Big Data Meetup Group is the largest tech community in Sri Lanka which specialises in processing extremely large data sets that may be analysed
computationally to reveal patterns, trends and associations, especially relating to human behaviour and interactions.