“Data is the new oil”, told by renowned business tycoon Mr. Mukesh Ambani during the JIO launch
program. I was quite excited after hearing this statement, since I work as a Database administrator.
Oracle has the highest market share of 45.6% of RDBMS Data around the world and I am enthusiastic
to be able to manage that huge Data. I deal with TBs of Data daily, while I work with networking
giant Cisco Systems Inc. I work as a Senior Software Engineer and Oracle DBA SME at Tech Mahindra
Ltd. and believe that people might live without electricity, but they can never live without Data.
Data can be in any form and humans have this immense ability to save it either in their memory or in
any electronic form of memory. Storing the Data in a Database has many techniques and
technologies. DBMS and RDBMS being very popular and most reliable approach for storing sensitive
Data. Years back, I was very happy that I landed on a right platform to explore my technical skills. I
even thought that without a DBA, people will hang themselves!:) So, life was good all these years
with my understanding on Data Storage and its importance.
Very recently Big Data bee stung the whole world(IT) and people(IT) have lost their minds learning
and upskilling themselves and getting healed. I wanted to be one step ahead of the crowd and this
made the Sherlock Holmes inside me start the investigation. I wanted to find whether to learn how
to store different types of data or to find how to analyse and give value to the stored data. I figured
out that you can store any Data in any form using one or the other technology. All you need is
storage devices, storage mechanisms and finally unlimited power to keep the storage servers up and
running.
Data is ever-growing, and I finally felt like "making sense out of stored data” made more sense to me
than “learning many ways of storing data". That very moment, I realised the power of data analytics.
If Big Data can be compared to raw food material, then Data Science can be compared to delicious
cuisine. I made my mind that for the rest of my life, I want to spend munching that delicious cuisine
rather than consuming unwanted raw food materials.
My quest for best cuisine started in the beginning of the year 2017. I googled many pages, blogs,
websites and tried some demo courses. But I wasn't entirely satisfied. I saw many flaws in most of
the offering.
One fine day, I came across UpGrad, which was offering one such Data Science course to the world.
Curious me, started searching more on Quora and other known forums. Believe it or not, I was spell-
bound and was quite convinced of the program.
Best thing which can happen to a guy like me is "UpGrad+ IIIT-B". PGDDS from "UpGrad+ IIIT-B" is
all you need to become a professional Data Scientist. It had everything in it.
Best University
Best Market Presence
Best Content
Complete online module
Best talent nurturing program by mentoring each and every student
Best placement assistance and placement
Best evaluation matrix
I joined this course immediately after so much of analysis and I am happy with my decision today.
My experience with UpGrad is very good with lots of academic challenges where I am tested every
single day and I love it.
If Data is the next big thing, UpGrad is the way to make it big!