{"id":659,"date":"2023-05-01T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/online\/?p=659"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:11:16","slug":"master-of-science-in-data-science-offers-more-career-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/online\/2023\/05\/master-of-science-in-data-science-offers-more-career-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Master of science in data science offers more career options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anah Southard-Goebel chose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/online\/academic-programs\/masters\/ms-data-science\">Ball State\u2019s 100% online master of science in data science<\/a> because she wanted the flexibility of working remotely while studying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flexibility of doing my classes at my own pace throughout the week really drew me to online learning for my master\u2019s,\u201d Anah says.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing Ball State Online for her institution of study made sense. The data science program aligned with her personal interests and gave her the opportunity to learn the things that were important to her career goals, like Cloud services, statistics, programming languages, and data visualization. The program focused on the technical skills that she wanted to acquire.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, Anah earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Health Science with the hopes of pursuing pre-med, but after a summer internship as a research assistant, she changed direction. During the internship, she was introduced to the programming language R and realized that her love for science was more about the data. After discovering this, her path forward was easy to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Once Anah began the program, working and studying simultaneously was a seamless process, and extremely rewarding for Anah. She took on a data scientist position with the state government, working for Family Social Services Administration (FSSA), while still completing her masters. In her position, she works closely with the equity officer \u201cto connect the state\u2019s vast amount of data to equity efforts to improve FSSA\u2019s services and equity initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During school, her employer encouraged her to use what she was learning in class by providing her with a \u201csandbox environment\u201d at work. She was able to find many opportunities to use what she learned in school when the subjects of her work and school assignments were constantly overlapping. This allowed her to practice working on \u201cstate data in a safe way that reinforced concepts learned at school\u201d and gave her valuable hands-on practice with time series analyses, regressions, ML models, NLP, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Anah feels as if she is following her family legacy by working at FSSA. Both of her grandfathers worked in similar roles throughout their careers. 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