The UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Systems for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) organized a one-day Workshop on the Introduction to R on November 23, 2023 in collaboration with the Department of Civil Engineering. This hands-on workshop was designed to empower the participants with practical skills by creating their familiarity with the RStudio, operations, functions, data types, tables, importing, exporting and manipulation of plots data, combining verbs using pipes and data visualization.

The event started with a welcome note by Lecturer, Sarmad Manzoor from the Department of Civil Engineering. He presented the UNESCO Water Chair role and highlighted the importance of the UNESCO Chair being an effective platform for knowledge sharing. The resource person, member UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Systems for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), CUI Wah Campus/Lecturer, Engr. Summera Fahmi Khan from the Department of Civil Engineering shared knowledge and expertise with the participants. She conducted an interactive learning session with the demonstration of exercises by using R and RStudio programming language.

She deliberates examples by analyzing and predicting weather patterns affecting climate change, unraveling intricate patterns and trends within complex environmental datasets considering Pakistan’s environment. The researchers from Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), faculty members, graduate, undergraduate students from CUI Wah Campus attended the workshop.

The UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Systems for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abid, T.I., in his closing remarks emphasized on capacity building and sustainable improvements in research by analyzing a large batch of raw data by using tools in order to identify patterns and extract useful information for climate data management. He appreciated the efforts of the resource person and the team of organizers especially the ICE chapter of CUI Wah Campus on effectively conducting this workshop. The Chair also thanked all participants for their participation and for making this event a success.