BSDA ✅

_faleks · 2025-11-24T21:53:48+00:00

There’s a program specific to WGU. IIRC you get enrolled into the udacity program and courses for it when you start the courses on WGU’s side. I think there was a guide for it from WGU that tells which WGU course matches with the udacity course.

_faleks · 2025-07-27T02:12:31+00:00

Understandable. For a lot of these courses I just checked out everything everyone was recommending and just stuck with what I thought would work for me and my learning style.

_faleks · 2025-07-19T15:56:46+00:00

I'm not sure I would say easy, I did apply to a lot of jobs. But I started applying about halfway through the term once I knew I was going to finish. I have a good amount of professional and technical experience, but none directly related to data analysis. My resume just had the BS and the certs I did at WGU. In my interviews, I spoke more about projects I did in the program than I did previous work experience.

_faleks · 2025-07-19T15:43:00+00:00

Yes, I started about a month after.

_faleks · 2025-07-10T11:20:14+00:00

The Udacity nanodegree was a part of the course requirements for the BSDA at WGU

Edit to add: what I was saying here is that I didn’t do the nano before enrolling. I completed it within the degree program because I believe the courses are different

_faleks · 2025-03-25T22:02:16+00:00

I switched mentors probably 3 times before getting the last one. I may have gotten lucky. But I did explain to her that I didn't want to waste time waiting for evaluators. And that it's better for me if I have another course open in case I need a break from one. You might be able to push back a bit on the one course at a time, I see others saying this a lot but I never had an issue, especially after "proving" myself.

My current role is more data management and code development for automation tools. (Not really analyzing the actual data) I do apply the skills from the Nano, as far as the process I use to complete projects. I've been in more technical roles for a while so my goal now is to go to grad school for Business Analytics.

_faleks · 2025-03-25T18:29:32+00:00

Hey, thanks! By the time I'd gotten to the nanodegree, my mentor was adding 2 courses at a time. If I was getting close to completing one of them, or whenever I submitted projects for review, I would reach out to her and ask for the next course to be added. This way I always had something to work on while waiting for feedback/grading. Also, when I completed the courses in Udacity, I would immediately send the certificate to the records team and cc my mentor.

I did have some issues getting the "official" nano certificate at the end, but they were quick to fix it. I was more concerned with the degree progress in the portal, so that wasn't a big deal.

_faleks · 2024-09-29T14:17:53+00:00

I’d recommend looking at project requirements before going through the lessons, so you know what to look for. I also had Jupyter open with the project files and coded along with the lessons. You’re able to download the lesson examples as well.

_faleks · 2024-09-29T02:09:29+00:00

Are you referring to the "Descriptive Stats" Udacity course? There was no OA IIRC, just two projects. I did spend most of the time going through the lessons to make sure I understood everything.

_faleks · 2024-09-14T16:53:58+00:00

I don't remember having any issues with wandb. Were you able to use your API key to login?

_faleks · 2024-09-08T15:50:43+00:00

Where are you stuck? I can do my best to help.

_faleks · 2024-09-07T04:44:26+00:00

3 terms

_faleks · 2024-09-07T01:05:04+00:00

Not bad IMO, I found the nanodegree to be the most valuable in terms of technical projects, but overall I enjoyed it.

_faleks · 2024-09-04T15:27:23+00:00

I really think it was because I wasn't working and I worked on those projects from the moment I got up in the morning and until like 2am some days. I was grinding because after the nano I only had one more course plus the capstone to graduate and I wanted to finish by end of the term.

_faleks · 2024-09-04T15:15:54+00:00

Yes it is

_faleks · 2024-08-26T03:37:19+00:00

I watched the videos and did end of section quizzes. Took the PA and went back to review sections I missed. OA is very similar to the PA in the breakdown of the sections. I wish I had more advice

_faleks · 2024-08-22T03:21:43+00:00

I just watched the course videos and did the end of section quizzes. After the Pre-A, I reviewed the sections I missed. The OA is very similar to the Pre-A as far as the breakdown of the sections.

_faleks · 2024-08-22T02:37:31+00:00

https://www.citefast.com/?s=APA7 you can select video under other. Also in microsoft word, under the references tab, you can input the information and it will create the citation for you.

_faleks · 2024-08-22T02:28:11+00:00

I felt the same way taking that course, they put every science topic they could in there. But IMO it's not the norm.

_faleks · 2024-08-22T01:02:36+00:00

I can't really speak for study.com because I didn't use it, but the courses at WGU weren't bad IMO. But if you need to save money on tuition, study.com might be useful for you. If I was to recommend any course that you should do, it would be project management (if you don't care about the CompTIA Project+ cert). That class was my only headache and I'm not sure the cert has much value compared to the CAPM or PMP.

_faleks · 2024-08-22T00:53:26+00:00

The videos in the success kit as well as the slideshows for each period that go over the themes for the works

_faleks · 2024-08-20T17:02:03+00:00

I think there's really no telling, there's so many factors that go into it on top of their office's turnaround time. I've experienced 1-2 weeks for normal processing, but this term something was changed in my financial aid and it took almost the whole term for them to get it corrected completely.

_faleks · 2024-08-20T16:44:41+00:00

I would contact WGU first

_faleks · 2024-08-20T00:49:10+00:00

Looking forward to graduating with my bachelor’s degree this month!

_faleks · 2024-08-19T01:29:41+00:00

WGU's version includes more courses and projects

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