Dr. Baijnath Kaushik, Senior Faculty, School of CSE, SMVD University, was invited as a Resource Person at AICTE sponsored, ATAL FDP on Data Science, 4th November, 2020 at Hindustan College of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. The FDP was sponsored by the AICTE under the ATAL training and learning scheme. This FDP was organized to deliberate and discuss the concepts and applications of Data Science.

Other resource persons were invited from NIT Trichy, IIIT Kottayam, Karunya University, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Statistical Quality Control Division, Bangalore, Amrita University and VIT Vellore.

Dr. Baijnath Kaushik delivered his lectures on the topic “Sentiment Analysis on Social Media”. He focused on “Text Classification techniques used in Sentiment Analysis” where he deliberated on Tokenization, Normalization of tokens using Stemmer and Lemmatization techniques.

Further, Dr. Kaushik discussed the types of Word Vectorization techniques including, Bag of Words, One-hot encoding, Word Embedding and some practical applications of Sentiment Analysis using Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms on Social Media Dataset.

The FDP was attended by 130 participants from different colleges of Coimbatore through Cisco Web Applications.