Shaurya Agarwal
Shaurya Agarwal has been tinkering with Data, Cloud technologies, Machine Learning, Data Science and now GenAI for over 21 years. Now a Director with PwC India, Shaurya brings his expertise and experience to solve critical problems across a very wide set of domains.
Session
Ontologies provide a powerful way to structure knowledge, enable reasoning, and support more meaningful queries compared to traditional data models. Recently, interest in ontologies has resurged, driven by advancements in language models, reasoning capabilities, and the growing adoption of platforms like Palantir Foundry.
In this hands-on tutorial, participants will explore ontology development across multiple domains using a variety of Python-based tools such as rdflib, Owlready2, PySpark, Pandas, and SciPy. They will learn how ontologies facilitate semantic reasoning, improve data interoperability, and enhance query capabilities.
Additionally, attendees will build a rudimentary reasoning engine to better understand inference mechanisms.
The tutorial emphasizes practical applications and comparisons with conventional data representations, making it ideal for researchers, data engineers, and developers interested in knowledge representation and reasoning.