Introduction I recently completed the Quantic MBA. I graduate in about 2 weeks. I thought readers would be interested in my experience as someone who actually completed the program. I was one of the last cohorts to be admitted with a 100% scholarship before Quantic switched to a model where the standard tuition cost is…
Year: 2021
DTSC-650 Data Analytics in R Tips
Introduction As a student in Eastern University’s Master of Science in Data Science, I recently completed a course in basic data analytics with R. I had never worked with R but this was probably my favorite course in the whole program. Tidyverse The tidyverse is a set of packages used for data science including dplyr…
Eastern University Master of Science in Data Science Half-way Review
Introduction As a student in the Eastern University MS in Data Science program, I’ve been taking courses in Python, R, statistics and databases for the last 9 months. I’m half way through the program now, and thought it would be helpful to potential students to provide more information on what each course in the program…
When a New Package Kills Your Python Kernel: A Guide
Introduction We’ve all been there. You go to accomplish what seems like a small change, tweak or update to a computer program and everything goes bananas. In my case, I was downloading the package handson-ml2, the companion to the excellent machine learning textbook. The terminal code was supposed to have me create a virtual environment…
How to become a Graduate Assistant at Eastern University
Introduction I am a current student in Eastern University’s Master of Science in Data Science program, starting in January 2021. This is a 10 month program if you take it full time (2 courses at a time), or 20 months if you take it part time (one course at a time.) I am also a…