SECI2143, Probability and Statistical Data Analysis, for me, is a subjects that helps me build an understanding on what makes the basic of a data engineer, which is data analysis itself, this is because, most of the time, data analysis is a process that is complex and require a lot of skills to interpret the message behind the big bunch of value give to us. This course helps me focus on finding the best way to find the meaning behind the data given through sets of skills provided, including data collecting and inferential analysis. Most may find all this courses as tiring, but I do enjoy this type of lesson more compared to computer related subject, most probably because I do not have any background in computer science and I enjoy calculation more than computer theory.
From the assessment perspective, this course has quite a lot of task needed to be done in groups, and thankfully, my team member consist of highly functional and intelligent people. Most of the assignment are relatively challenging but still doable, but the project is another story. There are 2 project that we are required to be done in this course, where the first one consist of data gathering and analyzing the data through descriptive statistic, where we interpret data using visual method, such as graphical representations including chart and graph. On the other hand, for project 2, we indulge more on the practicality of inferential statistic, which require us to perform hypothesis testing, correlation and regression test and other test such as chi square and ANOVA. This project does test our understanding on the lesson since we need to search for a dataset ourselves, and it has been fun to explore how to conduct these tests using statistical tools which is R programming. From this 2 project, I have learnt a lot about how to properly select or gather a dataset, clean it and ensure that it is usable and can be interpret. other than that, I do learn more on people management skills as I learn more about my teammates, since they are also packed with their own schedule, we begin to interact more and divide the task equally so that we may complete it on the due date. If any member face any problem, everyone will lend a hand.
Finally, I do wish to say thank you very much to my lecturer, Dr Nor Azizah Ali for teaching me this subject for this semester, and I wish to apologize for all my shortcoming while I was under your guidance.