I am a tech geek and love learning new technologies. Big data technology was something that I wanted to get into right from when I was in my college but options were few and other priorities took over. After completing 2 years as a full stack developer post-college, I wanted to learn what I had in mind since college i.e. Big Data technology. As with anything else, the best time to learn seemed now.
I was looking for a certification program that would help me dive deep into data science and I was looking through a course that also offered the convenience of part-time and offline options for networking. I started my research about the Data Science courses that are available in India and many courses popped up, both online and offline.
One of them was UpGrad’s Data science program in partnership with IIIT-Bangalore. Little did I know, when I asked around, that one of my friends had already signed up for this. Since I knew about the credibility of the college and the fact that they would provide a postgraduate diploma at the end of it, I decided to go for this course.
The course was, without a hint of doubt, excellent! It gave me an overall structure of how a data science project was done in the industry, the various algorithms used and the steps they follow. I also learnt Python for data sorting from the online content and to implement the concepts I learned in the course.
Finally, when I got a job in data science through UpGrad, it was easy for me to relate to the process they follow once I got into the role.
#GotanUpGrad.