Webinar on Big Data Analytics: Tools and Techniques

A successful webinar on Big Data Analytics: Tools and Techniques has been successfully arranged by IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter on 26th May 2021, Wednesday at 7:00 pm through the virtual platform – zoom. The keynote speaker for this event was Professor Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Vice-Chair (Activity) of IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter, Professor Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET). The webinar was conducted by the 2021 IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter and supported by the IEEE CS BD Team SPARK.

The honorable speaker for this event, Professor Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, took a beginner-friendly approach to assist the attendees in getting started with the vast world of data. Beginning with the basics of big data – what big data is, why and where we need it as well as the growing need for big data in this fourth industrial revolution, the speaker moved on to more complex topics like how to deal with big data. He further explained how to deal with big data with the help of HDFS, Map reduce framework, HBase, Pig, and Hive and Spark. He then addressed and introduced the attendees to the research and state-of-the-art big data topics. Lastly, he introduced some of the big data case studies so the attendees could get ideas about the practicality of big data.

Students, academicians, some foreign researchers and professionals from different Universities and organizations especially who were keen on research attended the event. Over 100 IEEE and non-IEEE members attended the webinar. Overall, it was met with a satisfactory response from research aficionados, educators and students across the country.