BITS & BYTES Lecture Series: Minutes of First lecture held on 13th February 2015 at SRELS, Rajajinagagr, Bangalore Topic: “Big Data and Analytics: Applications in LIS” Speaker: Suvarasha Minj, Kaybus, Bangalore Organizers:NCSI-Net Foundation, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) Date & Venue:Friday 13th February 2015 at SRELS, Rajajinagar, Bangalore. The Lecture started with welcome address and brief introduction of lecture series by Dr. Francis Jayakanth. Dr. IRN Goudar, who presided the function, introduced speaker and presented his views about the buzz word “Big Data” which is widely talked in present social networking context. He also appreciated organizers – and the three organizations - for reinitiating monthly lecture series in Bangalore. Mrs. Suvarsha, the speaker, introduced concept &history of Big Data and its nature. She explained Big data with its 4Vs terminology i.e Volume (terabytes to exabytes of data), Velocity (Data in motion, streaming data), Variety (Data in many formats like structured, semi structured, unstructured etc), Veracity (Data in doubt). She spoke about big data analytics which has got wide market applications, for example market trends, customer preferences etc. The history of big data analytics was demonstrated with a YouTube video. Survasha highlighted key enablers and technologies of big data. She explained MapReduce,Apache Hadoop – 2005, NoSQL and other big data related technologies. She also mentioned applications of big data in various fields by giving various examples like, Wal-Mart can predict what products will sell, Car insurance companies understand how well their customers actually drive, Obama’s 2012 election win by analyzing big data analytics etc. She concluded her talk byexplaining applications of Big Data concepts in LIS field; she mentioned various ongoing projects in LIS arena. She opined that possible applications of Big Data in LIS field can be: 1.Knowledge production – keeping the tabs – using web data, 2.Information – Books, articles, data sets, metadata along with other data 3.Users – Usage of information 4.Webometrics - large scale data analysis identifying appropriate research fields for new information sources based upon an initial analysis of its potential 5.Bibliometrics and Altmetrics - identify patterns, discover new knowledge, and inform public and scholarly decision making Finally she concluded her talk by explaining path of Knowledge automation and Kaybus knowledge automation tool demonstration. There was interactive question answer session. The lecture was attended by more than 40 professionals from academic, R & D, corporate, student community. The lecture was well received and appreciated by the participants. Mr. Ananda Byrappa thanked Mrs. Suvarsha for informative talk and Dr. IRN Goudar for presiding over the lecture. Anand thanked audience for making the first Bits and Bytes lecture successful by turning in large numbers. Anand explained how the BITS and BYTES lecture series would help LIS professionals in Bangalore going forward. About BITS & BYTES Lecture Series: A Joint lecture series initiated in Bangalore by three LIS organizations namely - NCSI-Net Foundation, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS). Organizers welcome others to join the initiative. The lecture would be held on second Friday of every month at 6.15 pm at SRELS, Rajajiangar, Bangalore. Next talk would be organized on 13th March about “Library Space in context of Internet World” by Prof. Lalitha Aswath, Director, Prasaranga, Bangalore University. The lecture would be presided by Prof. AY Asundi. Former Prof. Bangalore University. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minutes Prepared by: Shivaram with inputs from Madhuresh Singhal& Ananda Byrappa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://kalaonline.com/ with warm regards Shivaram BS Treasurer, KALA Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.