India, April 8 -- IIT Kharagpur, one of the first IITs to be established and recognized as an Institute of National Importance, has invited application for an online course on Data Analytics with R Programing. The course will be conducted for 30 hours over a period of 8 weeks, and will mostly be conducted over the weekends.

"For gaining competitive advantage through data-driven decision making, managers should be able to marry raw data with business acumen," says the course brochure. The online course will be conducted by Dr. Swagato Chatterjee (Assistant Professor, IITKGP, BTech, IITKGP; PhD, IIMB) and industry experts from the analytics domain.

Who Can Apply for the IIT Kharagpur Online Course?

While the course is aimed at both stude...