Director General of the National Sample Survey (NSS), Bivas Chaudhuri, said on Tuesday that with the intervention of Information Technology (IT) in statistical sciences, the future of statistics is now data science. He further said that, post-COVID pandemic, IT intervention has altered the role of a statistician. Speaking at the convocation of the International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC), an associate of the Indian Statistical Institute, Chaudhuri said the new data tells us that unless we become IT savvy and do handshaking with the data scientists, the job of the statistician will be limited. He also said that demand for data is ever-increasing. The policies of the government need data and should serve a particular goal. NSS is under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). ISEC handed over diplomas to students from Mongolia, Myanmar, Tajikistan, and Liberia after they completed a ten-month course titled 'Statistical Theory and Applications'.