Hi I’m Parveen, I’m a recent graduate
of the UBC Master of Data Science Program
and currently I work as a data scientist at
Translink.
I wanted to apply data science more to the
public sector,
that's kind of what led me to working at Translink.
Its particularly fast moving, not only doing
analysis behind close doors.
If I do analysis today I can almost see the
impact of that in a week.
Hopefully that will lead to better transportation
throughout the Lower Mainland.
Everyone has these questions and they have
this data in front of them,
but they never really put those two together.
To be able to present that to an audience
is really exciting.
I love UBC.
Prior to the program I actually graduated
from UBC with a Bachelors in Biology,
so it was a bit of a shift into my masters.
I definitely didn’t have the experience
coming in, in terms of coding or any of the statistical background.
That’s all stuff I learned through the program.
Moving into our Capstone I think a lot of
us experienced our first interaction with unclean data.
Thats kind of how it is in the real world,
data isn’t always going to be formatted in a way thats meaningful to you
and I think
if I hadn’t had that experience
moving into the job that I'm in, that would have been a real shock to my system.
I think what makes this program unique is
that you get the best part of computer science
and then you’re getting the best part of statistics
and you’re getting a very specific part of communications.
Throughout the program, there’s a lot of
opportunities to meet with various employers.
I got my position essentially right after
finishing the program.
I think there’s definitely jobs out there,
there’s a great variety in a lot of different sectors,
so its really exciting that there
is so many job opportunities.
