VirtusaPolaris supports inaugural Jaffna Big Data Workshop

VirtusaPolaris supported the inaugural Jaffna Big Data Workshop, organised by the Colombo Big Data Meetup Group, which concluded recently at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Jaffna in Kilinochchi. 

The session began with Microsoft MVP and Founder/Principal Architect at dinesQL, Dinesh Priyankara, delivering a session on ‘Processing Big Data - the Microsoft Way’ where he explained the process of big data using Microsoft tools. Microsoft MVP and Senior Architect at VirtusaPolaris Dinesh Asanka 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. 

Associate Architect at VirtusaPolaris Selvarajah Selvendra then presented on the topic ‘Churning of Big Data for Better Value’, which discussed insights on turning big data into valuable information. Following this, CEO at Innovay and Online Business Consultant at Internet (Web) Marketing Strategist, Robinson Prashanthan, 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.