The Census Data Workstation shall help spread awareness about the extensive amount of data colleges during Census operations in the country. Professor Ashok Ganguli, Deputy Director of IIT Delhi and Professor Angelie Multani, Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, who was also present at the event, welcomed the initiative.
IIT Delhi inaugurates new census data workstation for academicians and researchers
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has inaugurated a new Census Data Workstation. The workstation has been inaugurated at the Economics Lab in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi. The Registrar General and Census Commission of India, Dr Vivek Joshi inaugurated the Census Date Workstation. Speaking on the occasion, Vivek Joshi stated that the Workstation would help facilitate access to Census Microdata for academicians and researchers.
The Census Data Workstation shall help spread awareness about the extensive amount of data colleges during Census operations in the country. Professor Ashok Ganguli, Deputy Director of IIT Delhi and Professor Angelie Multani, Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, who was also present at the event, welcomed the initiative.
Dr Joshi further invited IIT Delhi to undertake research on census data and operations. During the inauguration of the workstation, a memorandum of understanding, MoU was also signed between Shri Ajay Garg from the Directorate of Census Operations Delhi and Professor Ganguli from IIT Delhi.
A discussion between DCO Delhi and IIT Delhi was also held to explore the possibility of applications of artificial intelligence, AI, ML and advanced date science techniques in digital census and for compiling birth and death registration information and more.
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