The Research and Development Cell of St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata (SXUK) in collaboration with the Centre for Incubation, Consultancy and Entrepreneurship (CICE) of SXUK organised a two-day workshop on Data Visualisation with Power Business Intelligence (BI) on April 12 and 13, 2025 at the university campus.

A total of 30 faculty members, research scholars of SXUK and other institutions participated in this workshop.

The conference began with the welcome address by Prof. Ashis Mitra, Registrar, followed by the introduction and felicitation of the resource person, Prof. Atanu Ghosh. Dr. Somnath Banerjee, Convener of the workshop briefed on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in today’s world and the necessity of training about Power BI. Dr. Monalika Dey, Joint Convener of the workshop, coordinated and conducted the inaugural session.

The training session began with an introduction to the domain of Power BI and how the companies use it to take important decisions pertaining to the sales, purchase and fixation of discount rates. Prof. Ghosh then demonstrated how different types of charts can be created using this software, and also emphasised the usage of charts.

Participants also learned columnar charts, doughnut chart, DAX basics, report publishing and visualising the charts as a form of storytelling, followed by an interactive session. The vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. Somnath Banerjee.

Dr. Monalika Dey