The Department of Statistics of St. Agnes College organized a guest lecture on “Statistics- A Compass to Guide Journey in Data Science” for the Statistics students by the resource person Ms Ashma Dorothy Monteiro, Assistant Professor – Selection Grade, Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science, MAHE, Manipal. The speaker emphasized that Statistics is the backbone of Data Science and it helps in data-driven decision making and enables identification of patterns and correlations through various methods such as Descriptive, Inferential Statistics), Regression Analysis. Additionally, managing datasets is crucial, where a Training Dataset is used to build models, a Testing Dataset evaluates model performance, and a Validation Dataset fine-tunes models. The speaker also discussed Hypothesis Testing. The lecture was highly informative and interactive. Students gained valuable insights into the role of Statistics in Data Science.
No. of students participated: 58
