One Day Workshop on “R” Programming Software for Statistical Computing

Don Bosco College of Engineering under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching organized a One – Day Workshop on “R” Programming software for statistical computing on 9^th November 2019. Around 188 Remote Centres participated in this workshop all over India, Don Bosco College Of Engineering being one of them. The Workshop was conducted online through A-VIEW software. The workshop coordinator was Prof. Sanjeel Naik and remote center coordinator of the workshop was Prof. Amrita Naik. The entire workshop was guided by Prof. Sanjeel Naik  and well assisted by Mr.Amit Sapkal, and Mr.Romeo D’Cruz.

In the inaugural function which was a Online session through A-VIEW, Prof. Radhenduskha Srivastava and Prof Kannan Moudgalya, spoke the importance of “R” and also talked about the total course content to be learnt.

Following this, Ms. Nancy Varkey introduced the Spoken Tutorial Forum. The workshop was solely based on this Spoken Tutorial Forum wherein participants were introduced to 22 videos on R.

The content of videos included Getting started with Introduction to basics of R, data frames in R, Indexing and data slicing in R, plotting Histograms, Pie charts, Bar charts. Scatter plot etc covering a total of 22 Spoken Tutorial videos which are freely available.

The participants of the workshop were teachers from various colleges in the states such as Padre Conceição College of Engineering, Goa College of Engineering, Chowgule College of Arts and Science, Agnel Polytechnic, and Don Bosco College of Engineering. The participants had to watch each of these videos, follow the instructions and replicate the same in the R Studio interface. If there were any difficulties then such questions were to be put up on the forum which was then replied to by the organizers. This workshop was entirely based on self-learning so that the participants familiarized themselves to R by getting a first-hand experience. The Workshop was a good learning experience for the participants.

For the valedictory function, there was a panel discussion wherein the participants asked difficulties related to R in their respective Remote Centres and was answered by Prof. Kannan Moudgalya.