My experience and journey with UpGrad
I was a call centre employee working for an International BPO. I wasn’t much interested in it. The only thing which helped me while working as a call centre agent is English communication skills as I got a good command over the language while speaking to with Americans. But I genuinely wasn’t satisfied as I had already set goals to pursue something very different, all by self.
I was shortlisted for ICICI Bank PO programme in February 2014. I underwent seven months of rigorous training at ICICI Manipal Academy, Bangalore and finally got posted in Business Intelligence Unit department of ICICI Bank, at its regional office in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. I did not had any prior experience in the data analytics industry then but after joining the bank in a department where analytics happens to be the core part of the job, I developed an interest for data analytics and hence I was looking forward to join a course which helps understand data analytics and improve my analytical skills. Thanks to facebook, it introduced me to PGDDA course from UpGrad and IIIT-Bangalore. I inquired about this course and read its reviews. Later, I decided to join as it was being offered by a premier institute as esteemed as International Indian Institute Of Information Technology, Bangalore.
PGDDA course from UpGrad and IIIT-Bangalore has happened fortunately to me and it has helped enhance my skills in Excel, SQL, R etc. It has been 8 months almost since the course has started and UpGrad has exposed me to all the challenges and developments which would happen in a real scenario in the data analytics industry.
As far as my experience and journey with UpGrad and IIIT-Bangalore is concerned, I would like to say that joining this course in cohort-2 has truly been a quite wonderful opportunity as I came across lot of analytical minds(my batchmates) along the way and I have befriended a few who have immense knowledge about data analytics and whose help, I believe can be very useful whenever I need them.
Apart from modules and lectures from various professors, the only thing which inspires me is the useful questions and answers session which keeps on happening on a daily basis in the discussion forum.
Case studies and Assignments in each module have further helped me develop as an analyst and I have full faith that this experience would come in handy at times when I undertake any critical projects in future.
I would like to extend my warm regards and thanks to the following professors for illuminating us with their knowledge and I would say that they are a very rich and vital sources of education.
1.Professor RC: A special thanks to Sir for helping me understand the basics of R, SQL, Data Ware Housing, CRISP-DM framework, tableau.
2.Professor Anand: He is the one who I can look upto in case I need any help about EDA and MS Excel.
3.Professor Tricha: For helping me gaining insights into hypothesis testing.
4.Professor Dinesh Bapu Jayagopi: For his effective teaching of linear regression with relevant examples and brilliant thought process. I got a golden opportunity to meet him in person at UpGrad Basecamp in Hyderabad, on October 8th.
5.M/S Ujjaini: For sharing her valuable learnings on linear regression and model selection
- Professor G.Srinivasraghavan: For taking up the PA-2 course and assisting us grasp the concept of Support Vector Machines with an easy elaboration of relevant and to the point examples.
Faculty at UpGrad has been very supportive and helpful. I would like to thank my student mentor Vanshika Agrawal, under whose guidance and mentorship, I have come so far in this course.
Finally, I would like to signoff saying that PGDDA course from UpGrad and IIIT-Bangalore will give India the best Data Analysts of tomorrow who will become a very crucial part of the analytics domain and industry.
UpGrad in association with IIIT-Bangalore is reshaping the future of business data analytics and supporting many data enthusiasts as I to realize getting the job of our dreams.
It’s a great and best opportunity to all those people who are quite passionate and enthusiastic about analytics. I would like to wish them the best of all and good luck for their career.
For my fellow learners, do visit the following page for more information about the PGDDS course from UpGrad and IIIT Bangalore.
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Thanks and Regards
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Vibhor Srivastava.