ALYA DAMIA BINTI HUZAIMY

I am about to enter the second semester of my first year, and one of the courses I am taking is SECI 2143, which stands for Probability Statistics and Data Analysis. Throughout the course of this unit, I've picked up a wide range of new skills, such as how to do data analysis, how to compute core trends, and how to formulate a hypothesis statement based on a dataset. This information is really important for me to acquire so that I can better prepare myself for the work that I will be doing in the future. In addition, I have been assisted by a professor named Dr. Nor Azizah Ali, who is very dedicated to teaching this topic to each and every one of her pupils.

We were given a final project assignment for this topic, which required us to conduct a data analysis study on a dataset that we selected ourselves and believed would be appropriate for our investigation. Additionally, our class was split up into multiple groups, with each group consisting of a maximum of four students. Umar Haziq, Harith Hakim, and Yasmeen Natasha, three of my other pals, have all decided to be a part of the same group as myself. I was tasked with carrying out a data analysis study that was focused on the correlation between datasets. Our data set contains information that is pertinent to the social media network known as Instagram. This dataset includes a number of factors, some of which include the influencer ranking, the name of the influencer, followers, and so on.

As a consequence of this, the members of my team have agreed that I should use the influencer ranking and the follower ranking variables for my correlation test. When calculating the test value and developing the graph correlation project, I make use of software programmes like Excel and R Programming. I am able to perform a comprehensive computation in a manner that is both straightforward and time-saving by utilising R programming. With the assistance of my R programming knowledge, which I had acquired at the beginning of the semester, I discovered that I was able to come to a complete conclusion for my data experiments that were related to the correlation of such data. This was made possible by the fact that I was able to analyse the results of these experiments.

In addition, I have completed a few more jobs, such as coming up with the ultimate conclusion for our project and assisting other members of the team in completing the task within the allocated amount of time. I have also participated in the video editing process that was done for my group. I am able to report that every single member of my group has fully committed themselves to finishing the project and has worked together well to do so.

As a result of my self-reflection, I have gained a significant amount of knowledge on the processes of hypothesising and doing data analysis. I also have a better understanding of the usage of methods and knowledge that will be utilised later while working, thanks to the assistance of the other members of the team that I am working with. As a result, by working on project 2 with the other members of the group, I will be able to acquire an initial overview of how to use previously gained knowledge.

Module 1: In this module, I managed to define the different types of cloud computing models. I can describe six advantages of cloud computing and be able to recognize the main AWS service categories and core services. I am also being taught to review the AWS cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF).

Module 2: In module 2, I can explain about AWS pricing philosophy. I can recognize fundamental pricing characteristics and indicate the elements of total cost of ownership. This module also taught me to identify how to set up an organisational structure that simplifies billing and account to review data cost and functionality in the AWS Billing Dashboard. I can describe how to use AWS Bills, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets and AWS Cost and Usage Reports. Lastly, I can identify various AWS technical support plans and features.

Module 3: This is the simplest module where I learnt to identify the difference between AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge Locations. I can also identify AWS services and service categories.

Module 4: Module 4 taught me how to recognize the shared responsibility model and responsibility of the customer and AWS. I can recognize IAM users, groups, and roles in order to describe different types of security credentials in IAM. I can also identify the steps to securing a new AWS account and how to recognize how to secure AWS data and also compliance programs.

Module 5: This module exposes my knowledge towards the basics of networking by describing virtual networking in the cloud with Amazon VPC. I also learned to design basic VPC architecture and also indicate the steps to build a VPC with adding components to produce a customised network. Lastly, I can identify the fundamentals of Amazon Route S3 and the benefits of Amazon CloudFront.

Module 6: This module is focusing on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is explained about functionality in the EC2 console and how to perform basic functions of EC2 in order to build a virtual computing environment. We were demonstrated when to use AWS Elastic Beanstalk and when to use AWS lambda.

Module 7: In module 7, we were told various types of storage such as Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, Amazon S3 Glacier and their functionality. We are taught to differentiate all of them.

Module 8: Module 8 is about Relational Database Services ( Amazon RDS), DynamDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora and their functionality. I also learned how to perform tasks in an RDS database, such as launching, configuring and interacting.

Module 9: In module 9, I am able to describe and identify principles of the AWS Well-architected Framework including the five pillars. I understand the explanation about the importance of reliability and high availability. Lastly, I learned how AWS Trusted Advisor helps customers and understand how to interpret their recommendations. 

 Module 10: In this last module, I learnt how to distribute traffic across Amazon EC2 instances by using Elastic Load Balancing. I also understand how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launches and releases servers in response to workload changes. Other than that, I learned how Amazon CloudWatch enables you to monitor AWS resources and applications in real time. Lastly, I learnt to perform scaling and load balancing tasks to improve architecture.

My motivation to complete this project myself. I want to gain as much knowledge as I can but why is knowledge important to me? From my understanding, knowledge is understanding and awareness of something. It refers to the knowledge, facts, abilities, and wisdom gained from life experiences and study. Knowledge is a vast idea with no limit. Cognitive processes, communication, perception, and reasoning all play a role in knowledge acquisition. It also refers to a person's ability to recognise and accept the truth. Knowledge can be used in both positive and harmful ways. As a result, knowledge has the ability to both create and destroy. Knowledge can be used for personal advancement as well as the advancement of a community, city, state, or nation. Some people may abuse it for bad reasons, causing harm not only to individuals but also to the community. I want myself to be fulfilled with as much knowledge so it would be easier for me to deal with any upcoming problems in my life.

I would like to express my gratitude to my lecturer, Dr. Izyan Izzati binti Kamsani, who has been spending her time and dedicated herself to educate us throughout this subject. Without her guidance, I will be completely lost in a way to finish all the tasks given, especially the final project for this subject. She always reminds us of the deadline for every assignment. She is also very considerate of the deadline to keep on asking us whether we can make it on time or not else she will extend the submission date. She is so kind and patient in answering each question coming from all the students. Thank you for your amazing lectures and feedbacks and thank you for being so supportive! Thank you for amazing lectures and discussions! I learned a lot and benefited from your course!

My opinion throughout this subject is it added up my knowledge about the whole technology world. I'm aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the technology itself. Without this subject, I would barely know anything in depth about the internet. Basically, I just found out that the internet is so much more than just for their searching function. It is amazing that now I understand what it means that the world is just at our fingertips. We can store information more than what we can imagine on the internet using cloud computing without worrying if it will disappear and we can always access it anytime and anywhere. Other than that, in this subject we learnt about development of technology especially in Malaysia. We can see that Malaysia is developing closer to other developed countries in order to be the best country in the world in terms of technology. For example, Malaysia is currently expanding the coverage of 5G for better and faster internet connection. They also started to give exposure to society about how Wifi6 is much better at maintaining steady top speeds while connected to many devices at the same time, even where previous WiFi versions would stumble. Recently, I had joined an industrial talk regarding augmented technology and what I gained was that augmented technology is an enhanced version of the real physical world that is achieved through the use of digital visual elements, sound, or other sensory stimuli delivered via technology. From this talk, I can see they've been trying to build something to make people easier and that's amazing because it will lessen our task, especially those who work in the industry. As a student, I can see the importance of getting on track with technology, especially to improve my daily life.