Eastern University MS in Data Analytics, $10K

Thanks. I will bookmark the video and see if it’s helpful.

 

I know that in my class at Eastern back in 2021 there were multiple people who had been in the Georgia Tech analytics program but left in favor of Eastern.

People underestimate how rigorous that program at Georgia Tech is. Both their analytics and their computer science master's degrees are known to be pretty intense and require a fair amount of prerequisite knowledge.

 

A little late of a reply, but Power BI is my wheelhouse, so I thought I would share. I am knee-deep in DAX (the excel-like language behind Power BI) every single day at work.

The definitive experts on the DAX language, Power BI, and MS Analysis Services are Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari. They have some great bootcamps but also a good amount of free training and articles at their website https://www.sqlbi.com/training/.

The DAX language is deceptively simple at first glance. Under the hood it is much more complex that Excel calculations. There is a great guide on at https://dax.guide/ by Russo and Ferrari.

 

I just applied to this program. I’ve never heard of the school before this. What is the reputation of the B&M Institution?

 

It's a small Christian University in Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. It has a solid reputation, just like the other thousands of unknown schools in the United States (there are over 2,600 4 year colleges and in the US).

I had never heard of the school either before I went there. I can only speak for my personal experience in the MS in data science program. I was started looking at this program when I was a data analyst and wanted to transition to a data scientist position. I asked some of the data scientists that my job if the curriculum would meet the requirements to work as a data scientists there. They said yes.

When I graduated my current employer didn't have any open positions for entry level data scientists so I started applying at other companies. I had absolutely no problem getting a job as a data scientist for a major American corporation with the degree and my prior experience as a data analyst.

I just recently left that company to take on a senior data scientist role at another major company. Again, it was fairly straightforward in getting hired and my degree has never been questioned.

 

Awesome, thank you for taking the time to reply!

 

Good luck! I really enjoyed my time in the program and they've expanded the offerings extensively giving you many more options to explore your specific interests.

 

I'm looking at the admissions requirements for the Data Science, and there seem to be no requirements for any specific math or computer science courses. Does the courses start with no assumption of previous knowledge?

 

Correct. I just realized this was the thread for the Data Analytics, and not Data Science. They truly "start from zero" in DTSC-520. The statistics you need to know is covered in the stats and R courses, while 670/680 cover machine learning, a bit of linear algebra and matrix math, and the important parts you need to know about the machine learning models you will be trained in. If you're looking for a more math-intensive program I recommend GA Tech's MSDA program.

 

This is timely for me. I am almost done with my MBA and recently got a curveball. I have been using AbleBits for years now. The most useful feature is being able to merge and highlight new and changed data. My task isn't really about "presentation", but about finding new and changed info. And I have a HUGE dataset. Well, now our IT thinks AbleBits is a security risk. (I disagree). And they are trying to figure out how I can do what I need to do. I don't know of any other tool that quickly and reliably lets me grab any exported data and merge it with my running list. So, I may have to go back to seeing if I can learn anything useful.

 

Thank you! That sounds really appealing, actually, although I'll need to dwell on it since this degree is probably overkill for my purposes.

(And *now* I notice my typos, once they are memorialized.)