WoodcrestMayor:
It's about having a plan and sticking to it. The exam will set you back a few dollars and you can only write in Canada. I can send you the soft copy I used(main study material though. When you come in and register,
you will be given the same material and you can add study packs at a few extra dollars. I heard of someone who started with CIBC as an advisor and now works for the government of Alberta as a BA earning 6 figures. If you want to go the BA route, you have to put in the required shift. I bought a udemy course and will start as soon as I get comfortable at work.

Guitarlife:

Amen o, My eyes are firmly on ifeom.a77 tho

If mater.nal catch me ehn, wetin he go do me go pass wetin him do that guy yesterday
Na joke o.

czaratwork:


You need to go back to part 1 to understand Maternal. Ignore his insults and pick his advice. He is like that. If you like form a group against him, he is not moved. That is just him.

Guitarlife:

Oh bro its nice to meet you, are you doing a diploma on an Msc ?
Are you in Canada ?

I have a background in Electrical Engineering (B.sc and M.sc) I am brushing up my statistics and probability/information theory knowledge.
I am looking at this path below, can you let me know how far you have gone and if I could learn a thing or 2 from you ?

Core Java for covering Basic Programming and OOP concepts (Concluded)
Java for Data structures and Algorithms(in Progress)
Statistics / Probability brush up(in Progress)
Intro to Data Science with Python

Do a Kaggle project at this point and document it on GIT hub

Machine learning for Data Science and Analytics
Deep Learning - www.deeplearningbook.org Part I and Part II

Do a second Kaggle project (Will start looking for junior Machine learning/ data science roles at this point)

SQL and Relational Database concepts (I Have a strong knowledge of this due to current work requirement)
NOSQL
Hadoop and Mapreduce

Do a third Kaggle project and blow from there.
Let me add this, I am self learning. I am teaching myself all these concepts with Udemy videos and text books .

negal:
Hello house,

For those that have successfully done ther CPA assessment; did they request for Course Syllabus for any of your BSC or MSC courses and how did you go about it.

amdman:


If you mean Nahinbdis, he is a close pal that we started the process and have moved closely together. Landed together too.

StKizito2:

Congratulations what day did you submit your passport at VFS?

kashamadupe0906:
Hello Canadians, please I need clarification on this.

If a newly immigrant decided to take Student Loan to proceed for bridging program while at the same time, opt for survival/blue collar job while off school, will the interest rate skyrocket because of this? as someone told me that if u collect Student Loan, u must not work or else, when you are to pay loan back, the interest rate will be very high, and won't worth taking at all.

thanks in advance

Guitarlife:

Oh bro its nice to meet you, are you doing a diploma on an Msc ?
Are you in Canada ?

I have a background in Electrical Engineering (B.sc and M.sc) I am brushing up my statistics and probability/information theory knowledge.
I am looking at this path below, can you let me know how far you have gone and if I could learn a thing or 2 from you ?

Core Java for covering Basic Programming and OOP concepts (Concluded)
Java for Data structures and Algorithms(in Progress)
Statistics / Probability brush up(in Progress)
Intro to Data Science with Python

Do a Kaggle project at this point and document it on GIT hub

Machine learning for Data Science and Analytics
Deep Learning - www.deeplearningbook.org Part I and Part II

Do a second Kaggle project (Will start looking for junior Machine learning/ data science roles at this point)

SQL and Relational Database concepts (I Have a strong knowledge of this due to current work requirement)
NOSQL
Hadoop and Mapreduce

Do a third Kaggle project and blow from there.
Let me add this, I am self learning. I am teaching myself all these concepts with Udemy videos and text books .

mikkyphp:

Very impressive.

If i may ask, do you also have plans of what you will be doing for money while you're studying hard to accomplish your ambition?
Any reason why you chose Calgary?

My 2 cents to you will be to focus on learning the core stats! As for python, focus only on the data related libraries -( Numpy, Scipy, Pandas,Matplotlib, Seaborn and of course Scikit learn) for python.

Your java skills will come in handy if you plan as a data scientist to convert your Analytics models into Data products.

Analytics is the ability to use quantitative data to glean actionable insights, shape decisions and outcome, as well as forecast future variables.

Remember: Data science is the process of formulating a quantitative question that can be answered with data, collecting and cleaning the data, analyzing the data and communicating the answer to the question to a relevant audience. This audience usually are business individuals who do not understand computer jargons. Hence, domain knowledge (e.g Financial service, Healthcare, telecoms etc) and soft skills are required because you would need to be able to understand the problem in order to tackle it and formulate the answer. The answer needs to be communicated using the industry/business parlance. Consider this when choosing your kaggle projects.

Good luck in your journey.

iaatmguy:
issorite, something is cooking up there
ja mi si

Flaj:


Remove yourself as a recipient. You don't get to receive it, the report will be sent only to the NCA.

mikkyphp:

Very impressive.

If i may ask, do you also have plans of what you will be doing for money while you're studying hard to accomplish your ambition?
Any reason why you chose Calgary?

My 2 cents to you will be to focus on learning the core stats! As for python, focus only on the data related libraries -( Numpy, Scipy, Pandas,Matplotlib, Seaborn and of course Scikit learn) for python.

Your java skills will come in handy if you plan as a data scientist to convert your Analytics models into Data products.

Analytics is the ability to use quantitative data to glean actionable insights, shape decisions and outcome, as well as forecast future variables.

Remember: Data science is the process of formulating a quantitative question that can be answered with data, collecting and cleaning the data, analyzing the data and communicating the answer to the question to a relevant audience. This audience usually are business individuals who do not understand computer jargons. Hence, domain knowledge (e.g Financial service, Healthcare, telecoms etc) and soft skills are required because you would need to be able to understand the problem in order to tackle it and formulate the answer. The answer needs to be communicated using the industry/business parlance. Consider this when choosing your kaggle projects.

Good luck in your journey.

Shyee:

I'm working on becoming one.

Guitarlife:

Hi bro, are you in Naija or Canada ?
What is your academic/professional background ?
How far have you gone ?

mikkyphp:


Remember: Data science is the process of formulating a quantitative question that can be answered with data, collecting and cleaning the data, analyzing the data and communicating the answer to the question to a relevant audience. This audience usually are business individuals who do not understand computer jargons. Hence, domain knowledge (e.g Financial service, Healthcare, telecoms etc) and soft skills are required because you would need to be able to understand the problem in order to tackle it and formulate the answer. The answer needs to be communicated using the industry/business parlance. Consider this when choosing your kaggle projects.

Good luck in your journey.

Shyee:

Awaiting PPR yet, I finished Andrew Ng's Machine learning specialization on Coursera, presently taking the deep learning specialization.
My interest is Computer Vision, I hope it's lucrative in Canada.

maternal:


Interest is only charged after you graduate or you're not going back to school. You usually have a grace period of 6 months after you're done school to start paying it back. Each province can be different. Even as you start paying it back you can claim some reduction on your taxes and get some of the interest you paid towards the loan. Student loan is by far the best loan one can get to go to school.

mrstaye:

That guy abi na woman thinks he has arrived because he is now in Canada. Over achiever!

Zutlin come and catch your sub o... supporter of bad behavior.
Maternal continue with your proud and condescending tone... you will regret it someday

Guitarlife:

Thanks for your contribution looks like I am pretty much on course.
With regards to your highlighted question, I am planning to pick up any available job, working only 8 hours per day can afford me the chance of having 5 hours to study every day and also help me to pay my bills.
The plan is to live very moderately for the first 1 year. If I can do 5 hours of study every day for a year I believe I should be able to fully cover these curriculum.

Then I chose Calgary cos I considered the cost of living and housing, since my target for the first 1 year is to fully equip myself with the required skills so my priorities are a low living cost for a year pending when I am fully armed with my Data Science/Machine learning skills.

Guitarlife:

Please send me your whatsap contact on a*y*o*naira@yahoo.com.
you can remove the *

Guitarlife:

Okay welcome on board, I am not in Canada yet too.
Can I ask which topics you have covered ?
The likes of Udemy/coursera are good but most times some of these courses are actually an abridged version of some text books so what I try to do is to get the text book that is being used for the course and read it from cover to cover.
You will internalise the lessons more that way.

Can I ask what your strengths are currently ?
How good are you in the following areas ?
Programming - what language do you use ?
Have you covered the key subject areas for a good foundation ? - Data Structures and Algorithms, Linear Algebra/Calculus , Probability theory and Statistics ?
Then how proficient are you with the basic data libraries in Python (sickit learn, matplotlib, pandas etc)?
Can you model mathematical equations with algorithms ?
What aspect of Data science are you really targeting Data wrangling , Data Cleansing, Predictive analytics ?

boundlessjoy:

Yes I did the EE application and I used my WES ECA report for my Application.

When I called NCA though, they said they accept credentials from WES but that the report has to state that the credentials were verified by the issuing institution and not just sent by the institution. On my ECA report, it is stated that the institutions verified the credentials, but I am not sure whether they will state the same in the course-by-course report.

I looked up a sample of an ICAP course by course evaluation report on WES’ website, and the verification thing isn’t stated on it. But then again, it could be that a verification wasn’t required for that credential and therefore was not done.

Any advice?

snoop4dem:
Hi Guys,

I have a question!

I submitted my application Aug 2018 as a single applicant and got married in December. I informed CIC before and after the marriage about my change of status and that I want to include my spouse in my application. I never got an address in my account about the additional docs, instead an agent told me to just submit the Background forms, additional family information forms, proof of payment, etc as a single document in the CIC case web form. While gathering the supporting documents for my spouse, I got an E-mail that my application is about to be approved and that I should update my application by Email (I was given an Email address) and another step was that I should send my passport for the PR visa.

I responded to that E-mail with my wife's documents and forms that has been filled but I did not get any acknowledgement and my status was never updated neither did it show that my wife has been included in my application.

I have not sent my passport to them because I want to wait and insist that my wife be added with my application instead of having to wait to get PR and start thinking of sponsorship which takes very long time.

All the cases I have read of people adding their spouses, they usually got an address on their account and usually knew when their spouse was added because there will be additional slot for them to upload supporting documents instead of Email.

I will appreciate any information or advice from anyone who has had similar experience

Dammie2017:
Anyone one interested in sharing a house around the gta...

Flaj:


Remove yourself as a recipient. You don't get to receive it, the report will be sent only to the NCA.