The demand for business analytics skills is surging globally, particularly in India and Australia, driven by the rise in digital transformation across various industries.
On August 8th, Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore organised a datathon for its students in association with Qlik.
Kristu Jayanti College is one of the leading colleges in Bangalore, also known as India's Silicon Valley. The college has multiple courses in engineering, business studies, arts, science, social sciences etc. More than 15,000 students study on the campus each year.
This was the first datathon organised by Kristu Jayanti and it was led by Dr. Kalaiselvi who is also the Qlik Educator Ambassador for 2024. She was supported by her staff members including Dr. Sasikumar, Dr. Sevuga Pandian, other faculties and students. A day prior, a bootcamp was led by Manikant Roy, Ph.d candidate from IIT Delhi, also an ex Professor.
More than 130 students participated in this day long event from 9 am to 7 pm. Students were given data sets with diverse topics such as Sales data, E Commerce data and data on Health. Most students were familiar with Qlik Sense since they had registered for the Qlik Academic Program previously and knew how to build dashboards and create visualisations. This event culminated into presentations by students and based on their output, three teams were selected as the winners.
Kristu Jayanti and the Qlik Academic Program will embark on many such initiatives to get students enabled in data analytics. To learn about how you can engage with us, if you are a student or a professor, visit qlik.com/academicprogram and benefit from a world class analytics training, software and qualifications!
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Another successful datathon event was concluded by Anurag University on June 28-30th. This event saw more than 600 participants working on different themes. Around 90 participants worked on Qlik Sense under the data analytics theme, showcasing a growing engagement with Qlik and the Academic Program.
Last week the Qlik Academic Program ran an online session for the University of Liverpool for student studying a master’s in business analytics and big data.
I feel pleased to introduce our new Educator Ambassador for 2024, Daniel E. O ‘Leary from the University of Southern California. He lives in the Los Angeles, California.
Daniel O’Leary isa senior member ofthe faculty in the Leventhal School of Accounting, at the University of Southern California (USC). Dan is a full professor who teaches courses on data and analytics and accounting information systems. This is Dan’s first year as a Qlik Academic Program Educator Ambassador.
Dan introduced Qlik into Leventhal’s curriculum as part of the addition of a new master’s degree in accounting focused on data and analytics, in the 2018 – 2019 school year. As part of that new degree, USC’s Leventhal School of Accounting worked with their different stakeholders to help determine theprogram’scontent. Those stakeholders included one of the big 4 accounting firms, which asked that Qlik be included as one of the tools built into the coursework, because of its importance to them and their clients.
Dan created two new courses to get students the knowledge that they needed to be able to use data and analytics, including artificial intelligence, business intelligence, databases, enterprise resource planning systems, robots and text mining. The course innovation was not just content, but also includes substantial hands-on experiences, as Dan flips the classroom to engage the students.
After careful consideration,Danelected touse Qlik in hisclass to capture the importance of cloud computing and cloud-based business intelligence (BI). Cloud computing also facilitates a classroomin whichstudents have both windows-based and Apple Mac-based computing. Using cloud-based software eliminates the problems of finding software that not only works in both environments but also works the same way. With cloud-based software, students see things done the same way in both environments.
In Dan’s teaching, he works to integrate Qlik with different software. For example, in addition to Qlik, Dan uses other software, including RapidMiner and ChatGPT in his teaching.As part of histeaching focus, he teaches students to useother software, not onlybyusing and understanding other software, butbyintegratingtheir understanding acrossdifferent software. For example, projects using RapidMiner are expected to be integrated with Qlik. Similarly, when working with Qlik, students are encouraged to use ChatGPT to support their work with Qlik, providing insights for using Qlik and for data and analytics in general.
Perhaps most importantly, the students feel like they benefit from learning Qlik. As part of his teaching, Dan asks the students which assignments, tools and speakers that the students enjoyed the most and found the most important. This year, 60% of the students listed the classwork with Qlik. As noted by one student “I found the Qlik assignment the most rewarding.” Another student noted, “Qlik’s interface is user-friendly and easy to understand.” As noted by still another student, “I enjoyed Qlik … the most.”
Dan’s use of Qlik in the classroom also has paid off for students on the job market. This last term one of his students found an analyst job because of her classroom work with Qlik.
We hope to engage with Daniel during his journey as the Qlik Educator Ambassador and gain more insights about his use of Qlik at USC.
For more information about our Ambassador Program, please visit:qlik.com/us/company/academic-program/ambassadors
Educators and students looking for free analytics software and training can apply to the Academic Program by visitingqlik.com/us/company/academic-program
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