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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by majjj: 8:26pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
WoodcrestMayor: Hi,I’m looking to branch out to BA too,would you mind sending me the pack too? Taking advantage of the free LinkedIn Learning Courses this January. You can look into it too. Thanks! 2 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Ifeoma77(f): 8:36pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
Guitarlife: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How's landing preparations going? 2 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by MumtotheBeloved: 8:48pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
czaratwork: You cannot ask people to accept when someone’s behaviour is leaning towards being a jerk(pardon me pls). I’ve been a silent observer here and maternal always comes out rather too strong with his opinions. Everything is about balance. Interpersonal skills and empathy. Let your words be soft and few. And when someone says he’s offended by your words, apologise. I understand our messages and opinion come from a good place but approach is everything. It will end in praise.Amen 25 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by cuteguy201: 8:50pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by rainazoe: 9:00pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
I only sent my B.Sc transcript because I didn't do WES course by course evaluation. negal: |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ToryWoods(m): 9:18pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
amdman: I’m about transacting with this user. I need vouch please |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Bettybeauty: 10:04pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
19th December... thanks StKizito2: |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by kashamadupe0906: 10:44pm On Jan 17, 2019 |
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 2 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by maternal: 12:03am On Jan 18, 2019 |
kashamadupe0906: 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. 21 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by mikkyphp(m): 12:23am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Guitarlife: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. 21 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by cuteguy201: 12:55am On Jan 18, 2019 |
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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Ramj: 1:42am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by boundlessjoy: 2:55am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Flaj:May I know the reason though? What happens if I receive it? I’ll still be able to view the PDF copy anyway isn’t it? |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 8:00am On Jan 18, 2019 |
mikkyphp: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. 12 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 8:09am On Jan 18, 2019 |
I'm working on becoming one. |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 8:18am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Shyee:Hi bro, are you in Naija or Canada ? What is your academic/professional background ? How far have you gone ? |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Akinwole007: 8:22am On Jan 18, 2019 |
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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Akinwole007: 8:23am On Jan 18, 2019 |
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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 8:27am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Guitarlife: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. I have a beginners level experience in Android Development hence a little of Java and Android Studio, my main Language is Python. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 8:37am On Jan 18, 2019 |
mikkyphp: I skipped this in my previous response, I have over 5 years of banking experience this includes exposure to banking operations, marketing, investments and IT. I stumbled on a free course online by a professor at Georgia Tech which concentrates on a machine learning path for an investment/hedge funds specialisation and having gone through the curriculum, it seems I will be concentrating on financial services sector as a Data Analytics Scientist also because of my background in banking. I think this will count as a linear progression in career path. If anyone needs a link to this material please PM me. It a gentle introduction to Machine learning for financial services and I think its not bad at all. 7 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 8:47am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Shyee: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 ? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Zutlin: 9:00am On Jan 18, 2019 |
maternal: Thanks for this. I've been thinking about it as I plan to do a bridging program without running down my POF. 1 Like |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by okokobiokoman: 9:01am On Jan 18, 2019 |
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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by okokobiokoman: 9:02am On Jan 18, 2019 |
That guy abi na woman thinks he has arrived because he is now in Canada. Over achiever! [quote author=okokobiokoman post=74875302][/quote] |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Chibexe: 9:03am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Guitarlife: Pls can you send me the materials you are using for self study through e-mail? Can we also connect on watsapp |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Chibexe: 9:21am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Guitarlife:Done 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 9:47am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Guitarlife:I Sent an email already, that way we won't derail the thread. |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by blessings2017(m): 10:22am On Jan 18, 2019 |
boundlessjoy: Good to know that WES ECA is now favorable and very economical to use. Back in the day we used IQAS. I think you should send WES an email telling them your concerns and how you would want the wordings to be... dunno if it'll work but you could try at least! ( sorry for the late reply) |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by blessings2017(m): 10:34am On Jan 18, 2019 |
snoop4dem: You can always add your spouse before landing. That means even when you have your passport already stamped but yet to travel, you can always raise a CSE to include wifey/new born baby etc. Raise a CSE, not an email, and CIC would respond in like manner . However, if there's an exceptional delay from CIC, kindly proceed and submit your passport. It won't jeopardize wifey's PPR. To allay your fears, a friend of mine had his PPR approved, passport sent and stamped (his application took just 1 month from start to finish). He got married 6months after and raised a CSE to include his wife. Wifey application took roughly 2 months. Now they're in Canada enjoying ![]() 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by humanshado: 10:55am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Dammie2017: Yes, I’m interested. Currently live in Brampton. Get in touch. |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by blessings2017(m): 10:56am On Jan 18, 2019 |
Flaj: But you know along the line, she would need her University and Law School transcripts if she wants to article. Most lawfirms require you to send your CV alongside the transcripts 2 Likes 2 Shares |
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