Data Analytics

On February 29th, a conference and introduction to the challenge took place at the St. Clair College Centre for the Arts, marking the official start of the event. More than 200 students from St. Clair College's Zekelman School of Information Technology and Zekelman School of Business attended the event. A total of forty teams registered, but only twelve advanced to the second round.

St. Clair College has emerged as the winner of The US & Canada Learn-A-Thon, Introduction to Data Science on Skills for All. Hosted by industry leader, Cisco, this competition unfolded for six hours from February 12 to 26, 2024, with teams from various educational institutions battling it out for the title.

Last week, Our Data Analytics students participated in an international Data Analytics competition organized by the University of New Brunswick. The students competed against 96 teams during the initial round with only 4 teams being selected for the final. The students put on an impressive performance by winning several categories in the final round.

A recent graduate of the Data Analytics for Business program at St. Clair College will soon show off her skillset as a Decision Support Analyst for Erie Shores HealthCare in Leamington.

Kushal Patel believes studying in the Data Analytics for Business program at St. Clair College gave him the skillset to climb the ladder of success from being a parking lot attendant to a data engineer at The Home Depot.

A graduate of St. Clair’s Data Analytics program now has a job with the global online finance company PayPal.

Girish Chandwani, the newly hired graduate, has started the position of Business Intelligence Developer. Some of the responsibilities include possessing knowledge of various computer programming software and analyzing data of PayPal’s overall performance.

Some St. Clair College Data Analytics students have developed an innovative scheduling application to help address wait times for radiation therapy at Windsor Regional Hospital.

Under the direction of Program Coordinator John Ulakovich, data was provided on different types of treatments, their duration and the typical wait times for those treatments in 2019.

St. Clair College students have created a system to predict local traffic.

COVID-19 has brought attention to the need for quick access to data and data analytics. What exactly is Data Analytics?

Data analytics helps individuals and organizations make sense of data, solves problems, and improves processes, systems and outcomes. For these reasons, data analytics can be interesting, exciting, challenging and rewarding!