Born in Calcutta to Probodh Chandra and Nirodbashini on June 29, 1893, Prasanta Chandra Mahalabonis was the eldest of six siblings. His grandfather Gurucharan was involved in the Brahmo Samaj and was ...

A book that takes the great statistician, Prof. P C Mahalanobis, from historical obscurity and places him in the centre of Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of Democratic Planning When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ...

Google, on Friday, honoured Indian scientist, mathematician and statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis with a colourful doodle on the 125th anniversary of his birth. The doodle reflected what the ...

Today, June 29, is national ‘Statistics Day’, in ‘recognition of the contributions made by Prof. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the ‘Plan Man’ of India; it is also his birthday. It was P.C. Mahalanobis ...

At a time when we all talk about data architecture and public systems, there is one critical aspect that is being largely missed by leaders across business and government. India’s vast and complex ...

He introduced statistical science in India. P.C. Mahalanobis considered it a key technology for the advancement of science and national development. Mahalanobis graduated in 1912 from Presidency ...

PROF. P. C. MAHALANOBIS retired from the Indian Educational Service and from his post as principal of Presidency College, Calcutta, on June 30. He is chiefly known as a mathematical statistician with ...

In 2015, Barack Obama appointed D.J. Patil as the US’ first chief data scientist and deputy chief technology officer for data policy. Is it so important to get insights from loads of data for framing ...

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