Big Data and Data Science Initiative in India
Biostat Biometrics Open Acc J 1(2): BBOAJ.MS.ID.555560 (2017)
Ajit Kumar Roy*
Central Agricultural University, India
Submission: December 29, 2016;
Published: April 24, 2017
*Corresponding author: Ajit Kumar Roy, College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, India, Email: akroy1946@yahoo.co.in
Biostat Biometrics Open Acc J 1(2): BBOAJ.MS.ID.555560 (2017)
Ajit Kumar Roy*
Central Agricultural University, India
Submission: December 29, 2016;
Published: April 24, 2017
*Corresponding author: Ajit Kumar Roy, College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, India, Email: akroy1946@yahoo.co.in
Abstract
As per Gartner, Big Data is high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets that demand cost effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making. Big Data is data whose scale, diversity, and complexity require new architecture, techniques, algorithms, and analytics to manage it and extraict value and hidden knowledge from both structured and unstructured data. Such large data is difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques. One of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century is to effectively understand and make use of the vast amount of information being produced. Data analytics will be among our most important tools in helping to understand such large-scale information. Researchers from India are active, in the fields of astrophysics, materials science, earth and atmospheric observations, energy, computational biology, bioinformatics, cognitive science, statistics etc., which generate a lot of data. To deal with these data it requires the development of advanced algorithms, visualization techniques, data streaming methodologies and analytics. Keeping in mind the momentum that big data analytics is gaining in India, there is a need to build a sustainable eco-system that brings in a strong partnership across the industry players, government, and academia. With this objective, the Indian government has launched a Big Data Initiative. Digital India is an initiative of Government of India to integrate the government departments and the people of India. It aims at ensuring the government services are made available to citizens electronically by reducing paperwork. The NIC has created the Open Government Data portal, data.gov.in. Currently 85 government ministries, departments and agencies have contributed more than 12,000 datasets across segments such as population census, water and sanitation, health and family welfare, transportation and agriculture to data.gov.in. Present government’s pet project of building ‘one hundred smart cities’ which has been allocated Rs 7,060 crores is another major project that would rely strongly on technology, calling for a robust cloud computing backend coupled with real-time surveillance and big data analytics technologies. The UID-Aadhar project will be the largest such citizen database.
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