About us

The Data Centre & Analytics Lab (DCAL) is a centre of excellence set up by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in the year 2012. Housed at IIMB campus, DCAL is a dedicated research and training lab to support interdisciplinary empirical research using data on Indian and other emerging markets. DCAL is a three point platform - a data warehouse, a developer of analytical solutions and an analytics training hub.

What do we do?

We collect, process and model data to bring out innovative solution to be consumed by researchers and practitioners. Our analytical solutions coupled with statistical models will act like a lever to propel growth and bring a change in the way organizational activities are executed.

Our short and long-term training programmes on

analytics equip employees with ability to analyze and

act on the data in real time

Researches get access to an extensive and

most comprehensive collection of local and global data

Our corporate collaborators benefit from

the ground-breaking solutions we provide to

business problems

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VISION

To inspire everyone to use Analytics in all aspects

of Management

MISSION

To become a centre of excellence by generating and sharing knowledge

in the field of Analytics and Big-data

CORE Generate high quality research output and teaching material that will benefit

the entire analytics domain

Industry and Sector

Application of Predictive analytics in retail, banking, healthcare, insurance, supply chains, manufacturing, HR, Finance, Airlines. Prescriptive Analytics

Linear Programming, Integer Programming, Multi criteria decision making(MCDM), Non linear programming.

Predictive Analytics

Regression & Classification Models, Multinomial classification models, Ensemble Methods, Forecasting, Markov Models, Poisson Processes, warranty analytics, Monte Carlo Analysis, Markov Decision process.

Visualization dashboards using DJ.JS, HTML5, bootstrap, python. Dashboard using Web Development interface of R (Shiny).

Descriptive Analytics

Big Data Analytics

Scalable machine learning, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark

Machine and Deep Learning

Machine Learning, Regularization, Neural Networks, Video Analytics, Gradient Descent, BFGS

Analytical capabilities

Technology and Platform

Open Source

Tools

R, Python, Scikit-learn,

pandas, D3JS

Licensed

Software

SAS, SPSS, Qlik Sense,

Cplex, Tableau, Prowess, CSPro

Big-data Platform

Running Hadoop and Spark Platforms(10 node | 100 TB |

500GB RAM| 100 core processor)

Census Lab

Micro Level Census data

Digital Library of census:

data from 1872

till 2011

Analytics Awareness

Deep research capability in the filed of Operations Research, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning and many more...

More than 25 analytics cases published at Harvard Business Publishing.

International Conference - 250+ research paper presentation by academia & industry. Symposium on industry projects executed by students of BAI & BDA programmes.

Workshops on Data Science using Python and R, Big Data solutions using spark. FDP & MDP

FDP & MDP programs are organized to provide the participants with a hands-on experience on analytical tools and techniques.

It is a one-of-its-kind initiative for academicians and practitioners to share the applications of Analytics in various disciplines of Management.

Analytics Master-class Series

Training & Workshops

Publication

Conference & Symposium

Research

Success Stories We have worked with companies in various sectors and of different sizes

Industry Connect DCAL has engaged with many corporates for both short and long term research. A shared research vision is the driving force behind these successful partnerships

Current Engagements

Govt. of India funded research project

2 years project funded by DIETY on fraud analytics and credit scoring for urban co-operative banks

Use of Analytics in Education and improve the effectiveness of teaching methods

Application of Analytics to help farmers Manage plant Diseases

Earth to Orbit Use of satellite images for decision making

Earth to Orbit

Education Portfolio

• Certificate Program in Business Analytics and Intelligence (8th Batch)

• Certificate Program in Big Data Analytics (2nd Batch)

• Short duration programs on data science, social media analytics, healthcare analytics etc.

Prof U Dinesh Kumar, Chairperson of DCAL has been recognized as one of the Top 10 most prominent analytics academicians in India for his extensive research in big data analysis by Analytics India Magazine. The magazine chose Professor Kumar for spearheading the analytics education industry in India. He regularly conducts corporate training programme in Analytics and has trained more than 1600 professionals in the field of analytics in the last 9 years. He is the Chairperson of Decision Sciences and Information Systems Area and also Chairperson of Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management of IIMB. He is also the president of the Analytics Society of India (ASI).

Decision Scientists

Prof Rajluxmi V Murthy Prof Pulak Gosh Prof Shankar Venkatagiri Prof S Ramesh Kumar

Extended Team – Teaching & Research

Rahul Kumar

Shailaja Grover

Purvi Tiwari

Dhimant Ganatra

Sheethal Malagi

Manaranjan Pradhan

Sunil S

Arun Pandit

Aarthi Krishnan

Industry Connect

• Gold Sponsorship

• Silver Sponsorship

• Event Sponsorship (Conferences, Symposiums & Workshops)

• Student Projects

Gold Sponsorship

• Membership in DCAL Advisory Council

• Industry partner in all events organized by DCAL.

• Access to the IIMB resources (analytics case studies and working papers)

• Participation in short duration BAI Executive Development Programme (2 free slots)

• Participation in biennial International Conference (4 free slots) and one invited speaker slot

• Dedicated Research Associates (2) to work on problems of common interest

( 20 Lakhs Per Year )

• Membership in DCAL Advisory Council

• Access to the IIMB resources (analytics case studies and working papers)

• Participation in short duration BAI Executive Development Programme (1 free slots)

• Participation in biennial International Conference (2 free slots) and one invited speaker slot

• Dedicated Research Associate (1) to work on problems of common interest

( 10 Lakhs Per Year )

Silver Sponsorship

THANK YOU !