Hey I’m Matt, I’m a recent grad from UBC’s
Master of Data Science Program
I currently work in the educational technology field.
My job involves taking a large amount of data
and transforming it into something that people can actually understand.
And then I use that new information about people
to try to determine they will do well in their jobs in the future.
One of the biggest draws of UBC’s Master
of Data science program
is that it’s only 10 months.
I’m not sure if I could have afforded to
be out of the workforce for 2, 3 or 4 years.
We have some of the best professors in computer
science and statistics in the world.
This program is really giving you the tools
that if you don’t know something you can figure it out.
One of the greatest benefits is the Capstone
where you’re working with real people, trying to solve a real problem.
I had to do a lot of the things that I am
now doing in my job, and that was great training for the real world.
Upon graduating, I was hired the very next
day.
Data science is going to be around for a long
time,
as long as there is some problem somewhere that involves doing something more efficiently,
there will be need for a data scientist.
Anyone who is interested in solving real world
problems in an interesting way
will find this incredibly rewarding.
