[INDUSTRIAL VISIT 2] Reflection for ADAX industrial visit.

               It’s truly an honour to be able to participate in this eye-opening industrial visit. With kind guidance brought by the technology frontiers, we are blessed to take a glance at the current trends in the field of technology: what to expect and what not to. Indeed, the current market has high and wrong expectation on data scientist: data scientist is just an individual which has capabilities to deploy big data tools in solving big data problems to aid better decision making.

With that being said, we as a Data Engineering students get a better picture of our own career development: the realistic picture of what a data scientist does, a realistic call from the dream. Hence, the exposure on practical application of data science stressed the importance of fundamental knowledge: what we are learning now, is the fundamental basic building blocks of data science, and success is only guaranteed with a strong foundation. Hence, regardless how basic what we are leaning now, we finally understand how important it is since every sophisticated project will still always back to basic at some point.

               Furthermore, speaking in plans of self-improvement for increment of self-potential, we understand that the current market demands multi-talented employees. Datacamp is one of the best way to expand our practical skillset: online courses which teaches R and Python programming, Data Science courses which can add extra value to ourselves. However, it wasn’t the hard skills are important, instead, soft skills are also being taken into accounts. We shall develop our soft skills like presentation skills, team management skills, time management and much more.

               Although the qualities that make a good data engineer nowadays are seemingly high, MDEC help us to cut out the panic: MDEC rolled out multiple programmes to assist us in development of these qualities. Hence, after the industrial visit, we are very interested to participate in programmes like Data Star initiative, soft skill development by MDEC and other potential developing programmes.

               Last but not least, we would like to express our gratitude again to every party which made this visit a reality, which left a great, impactful experience for us.