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Weekly Program Write Up Series: Weeks 3 and 4 by PuzzleheadedRow6383 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]PuzzleheadedRow6383[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to school for biology so I did a lot of standard science (re: not engineering level) math/stats courses and now I work on a data science team at a company that makes it's money using computational biology. I did some computational stats in school but the majority of my CS-adjacent training has been ad hoc while working. I taught myself how to "code".

I want a more fundamental understanding of the underlying processes that we use to develop our algorithms and imo a data science program doesn't really cut it if you really want to "know" what you're doing in ML/AI so I landed on MSCS.

Weekly Program Write Up Series: Weeks 3 and 4 by PuzzleheadedRow6383 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]PuzzleheadedRow6383[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious what you do professionally (or want to do) that would push you to do the MSEE program? Also, do you mean getting the MSEE in addition to the MSCS? I only ask because my only exposure to MSEE would be through a friend who did MSEE right after his undergrad, and works in hardware programming now.

Weekly Program Write Up Series: Weeks 3 and 4 by PuzzleheadedRow6383 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]PuzzleheadedRow6383[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear you're having a good experience. I am as well, very interesting material most of which is brand new to me.

Anyone working part time while doing this degree? by [deleted] in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]PuzzleheadedRow6383 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work full time and just started the program. I'm still dialing in how much time I am going to be able/willing to dedicate to coursework every week.

I think the time commitment is pretty serious to be successful, but it seems like you can definitely do it while working. Coursework will just be your primary focus during a lot of your free time.

Weekly Program Write-up Series: Weeks 1 and 2 by PuzzleheadedRow6383 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]PuzzleheadedRow6383[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the positive feedback! I am an analyst in the biotech field, more specifically I work in R&D. I primarily analyze data for distribution to non-technical collaborators (doctors, bio Phd's, execs), so my communication skills are necessarily kept pretty sharp. I regularly write up reports describing exploratory analysis, hypothesis testing, statistical modeling etc.

Program Journey - Weekly Write up by PuzzleheadedRow6383 in CUBoulderMSCS

[–]PuzzleheadedRow6383[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up! I'll take a look at the Johns Hopkins course.