A workshop on “Big Data Analytics using Hadoop” was arranged on 12th of September, 2018 and handled by the resource person Mr.Sukumar, Project Lead, SANDS (India) Pvt Ltd, Chennai.

The workshop was organized by the Department of Information Technology for the benefit Students, Research Scholars, and Academicians. During the session, he briefed about the basics concepts of analytics and big data technologies with its strategic importance to any organization. Participants were also introduced to the concept of analytics with big data technologies: Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Pig and Hive. The entire session dealt with the basic principles, concepts, and techniques used for big data and analytics, which includes Hadoop, Sqoop, Pig and Apache Hive. Also a hands on training in the Hadoop software such as installation, data ingestion using Sqoop and Flume and data analysis using Hive and pig was trained well. Participants got clear picture of all these concepts and how they all are interconnected to each other in organizational context.