Jigsaw Academy, the Online School of Analytics in association with CityMandi, India’s first Wholesale online B2B e-commerce venture came together and concluded an Analytics contest that was organized recently, the winners of which were awarded cash prizes & recommendation letters.
Participants who were training in analytics by Jigsaw Academy had to showcase their analytics skills on a professional platform. They formed a group of four members to work on and compile the submissions for the contest.
The contest involved CityMandi’s company data that was shared with participants of Jigsaw Academy to work on a real-life project. The final presentation would answer the problem statement by CityMandi while highlight the participants’ analytics skills and insights.
The overall objective of the contest was to demonstrate the use of analytical tools to derive insights from the company data that was made available by CityMandi. The learning objective was to demonstrate use of tools like SAS/R to extract, manipulate, analyse and visualize data.
Submissions for the contest by participants were evaluated on factors like Understanding of the Problem, Approach, Technique, Interpretation/ Insights, Visualization [relevance, ease of comprehension and interpretation by the reader], Presentation and the overall Effort by the participants.
The biggest highlight of the contest is CityMandi’s proposition to interview candidates who have made submissions, for suitable roles in their company.
Speaking on this occasion, Sarita Digumarti, COO & Co-Founder, Jigsaw Academy, The Online School of Analytics said
We were glad to see the enthusiasm shown by our students given the fact that it was an open-ended research study that dealt with corporate data that was not straightforward. We thank and appreciate the time and effort put in by all of them. We hope to bring more of such interesting projects in the year 2017 to hone and strengthen skills in our students and to imbibe data exploration, analysis, and visualization.
Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Co-Founder and Director of CityMandi said
We are glad to have associated with Jigsaw Academy and are excited about giving an opportunity to Jigsaw students for working on CityMandi’s business project, and are thrilled to have received submissions from them, we are thrilled about this association and look forward to more. We will be using the winning analytics ideas for optimization of our business operations furthering our cause of sound unit economics, and business expansion.
The top four winners were awarded cash prizes under the CityMandi Online Award program. The winners also received letters of appreciation and recommendation letters that can be a strong differentiator in a job change or higher studies.
About Jigsaw Academy
Jigsaw Academy, the online school of analytics, head-quartered in Bangalore, has trained over 40,000 students across 30+ countries in the most widely used industry-relevant data analytics tools and techniques. Jigsaw Academy’s founders, Gaurav Vohra and Sarita Digumarti, have over 25 years of combined experience in consulting and analytics, across multiple industry verticals in India and the United States. Jigsaw Academy is funded by Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE). For more information, please visit Jigsaw Academy
About CityMandi
CityMandi is India’s first Wholesale online B2B ecommerce venture. It is an attempt to restructure this complicated mesh of supplies from the farm to the point of consumption using technology based standardization, an end to end ERP, mobile based order capture combined with rich analytics, and cost effective wholesale payment solutions to offer an integrated solution for managing the supplies for B2B segment. Primary segment of consumers includes HoReCa (Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers). The key idea of CityMandi is to use technology and analytics to standardize the currently highly organized supply chain of HoReCa segment in India. For more information, please visit CityMandi