"I have found people in Kelowna so friendly and easy to connect and students might find much better opportunities here. I strongly recommend students to consider small communities like Kelowna."
Previous Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Birjand Program: MDS Okanagan – Class of 2019
I have been working with image data for a long time so, I was kind of familiar with machine learning, AI, and programming. I believe what we are doing with big data, machine learning, and AI is just the tip of the iceberg. It is like the internet in the 90s. I did so much research and talked to ...
"I really like that the program is 10-months and all course based. After coming from a degree focused on theory, I was really looking to gain practical knowledge."
Previous Degree: Bachelor of Science – Statistics, University of Calgary Program: MDS Okanagan, Class of 2019
Growing up in rural Alberta, my first step away from home was pursuing an undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary. With an analytical but also creative personality, I was unsure of which path was my best fit. It was not until I completed my first statistics course that I started to ...
“The years of knowledge and expertise that the MDS teachers have is priceless. Even if I did sit down and try to learn data science, I wouldn't know where to start or what to focus on.”
Previous Degree: Bachelor of Science, Integrated Science: Biochemistry and Neuroscience, University of British Columbia Program: MDS Vancouver, Class of 2019
Even though at first I was skeptical about whether the MDS program would be worth the investment, and also extremely nervous about the intensity of the program, given my limited coding skills, I could not be happier with the knowledge ...
“[MDS’] extensive and comprehensive curriculum was not being covered at any of the other programs within this short span of ten months.”
Previous Degree: Integrated MTech, Geophysical Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee Program: MDS Vancouver, Class of 2019
I was already curious and reading articles about the developments in machine learning and doing Kaggle competitions and some online courses. If I was only doing online courses, I would have missed a lot. MDS taught me what skills were important and how to connect ...
“The MDS program was exactly what I wanted to be able to do with data, which is to turn data into meaningful actions and be able to create decisions from them.”
Previous Degree: Bachelor of Science, Chemistry – University of Victoria Prior Experience: Resource Clerk, Province of British Columbia Program: MDS Vancouver, Class of 2019
I've been looking for data science master's programs for months. Nothing really clicked and as soon as I read the MDS program description, it was exactly what I wanted to do and that is being able to use already collected data to ...
“The MDS program gave me the confidence to explain and reason through data-related decisions.”
Previous Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Computer Science and Psychology, University of British Columbia Program: MDS Vancouver, Class of 2019
When I looked at the [MDS] curriculum, it was a really good range of relevant topics that I could tell was carefully designed and curated to fit within a ten-month window and also included a capstone project. That timeline really appealed to me as ...
"When I was looking for a program to take my career to the next level, I found the program at UBC and it ticked all of my boxes – it’s accelerated, it’s in a field that I really like, and gives me the skills that I need for the current trend in the market; it satisfied everything I was looking for."
Previous Degree: Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore Prior Experience: Data Scientist and Data Engineer at HSBC Program: MDS Okanagan, Class of 2019
I’ve always been intrigued by the power of computers and what you can program them to do. After some time as a developer and analyst, I realized, that I don’t want to be a traditional or a standard software ...
