AHMAD MUHAIMIN BIN AHMAD HAMBALI's Reflection
I like statistics since I was in secondary school. There is a part in additional mathematics that I love and good at, which is a statistic. So this course taught me things that I love. In addition, I love the lecturer; he explains everything well in accessible language to understand. Other than that, I learned a new programming language which is R. R is very easy to learn and very helpful in finding stats such as mean, correlation coefficient, median, and others in an extensive data set. Next, this course has derived my curiosity in learning new programming languages associated with data engineering like Python, SQL and many more.
In this course, we have three assignments containing exercises from various chapters that I have learned from the previous class. Each assignment will determine our understanding of the chapter. If we did not understand it well, we could ask our friend and lecturer to help. Therefore, the assignment is crucial, in my opinion. It will help me to improve my understanding and eventually cover my weakness in a specific topic. Next, we have projects that ask us to use software like Microsoft Excel, Word and Rstudio. This type of software is considered a soft skill for everyone, and it will help me in my future career.
We as a student facing a lot of problems during online classes. Personally, one of the big problems I’ve faced during that period was my poor connection. I often encounter problems due to my weak connectivity such as output lag and sometimes I accidentally leave the meeting season. Other than that, during this pandemic thing, we cannot possibly meet our friends physically and it is very hard to communicate with them. It made our group assignment harder to finished. Apart from that, I grateful to know new friends virtually and we having a great time together.
I knew one of the most demanding jobs is related to data. So, I decide to choose this course so that I've got a good chance to get a job after graduating. I need to focus on my programming skill and I need to master various programming languages. I've realized that my communication skill is not that great, so I decided to read a lot and try to have a random conversation with my new classmates. By doing that, it will elevate my confidence level and I believe that it will come in handy when dealing with my colleagues in the future.
what I've got from this course is I got to know a lot of new term related to computer science. Next, I learn that I need to improve my communication skill since it's very crucial especially when dealing with a lot of people during my work time later. Finally, I got a closer idea about the industry during the industrial talk.