This talk is targeted at students in the age range 13-17 and is part of a series of talks in the 'Agastya Junior Data Scientists Club' (more about this club at the end of this note). The session will be on Saturday, 6th November, 6pm-7pm. Please register here to receive a zoom link by email.

The Guest Speaker this month is S. Anand, founder of a highly innovative data visualisation company, Gramener. Gramener allowed Anand to combines three interests of his: statistics, programming and design.

Anand has an engineering degree from IIT Madras, an MBA from IIM Bangalore and has worked at leading companies such IBM, Infosys Consulting and BCG.

Anand will speak about how algorithms are used in real-life, the pitfalls of blindly following them, and how to discover interesting things with curiosity.

The 'Agastya Junior Data Scientists Club' had about 100 students participating in a 6-week long course on data science from Jul to Sep 2021. Students continue to be part of a community for 1 year beyond the end of the course to learn more about the subject. The talks and interactions in this community are open to all students now and not restricted to just the students who were part of the course.

GenWise developed and delivered the course on data science for Agastya’s highly able learners program. GenWise Mentor, Navin Kabra, developed and facilitated the course, supported by a team of teaching assistants. The Junior Data Scientists Club is supported by Mytrah Energy and Pravaha Foundation.

ONLY STUDENTS WHO WERE NOT PART OF THE COURSE NEED TO REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK. The students of the course will be receiving the zoom link by default.