Dear Admission Office:
I would like to state why I am interested in Master of Customer Analytics in this essay.
During my undergraduate study, I find my strong interest in data processing. Before I had any data processing classes, I had already used excel to predict the income of a hotel with a nonlinear model consisted of 5 variables (e.g. advertisement spending, price of rooms) in a National Business Simulation Competition. Although the process of constructing model was very time-consuming, I never lost interest and I was thrilled when I developed a model that simulated the data well.
Afterwards, I realized that I can work passionately and innovatively when in my interested field. In the Management of Corporate Financial Risk class, I exerted myself to learn new skills. One of my assignments in that class was demonstrating Support Vector Machines (SVM) with an application which requires a profound understanding of classification and regression. Although as an accounting major student with limited programming skills, I broke away from the confines of the reference material I provided, which only introduced the application of SVM on SPSS. Based on the knowledge I learned MATLAB class, I referred to other programmers' code of SVM application and wrote a set of codes successfully to predict return on investment using financial data in the past. With the help of my teacher, I added the factorial analysis of SPSS in my application of SVM. In the end, I wrote a thesis about this application and it was published on the Global Market Information Guide, a national magazine.
I know from the course description that I can learn many programming skills and financial analysis in this program and thus I am very interested to continue my study at Olin.
Thank you.
I would like to state why I am interested in Master of Customer Analytics in this essay.
During my undergraduate study, I find my strong interest in data processing. Before I had any data processing classes, I had already used excel to predict the income of a hotel with a nonlinear model consisted of 5 variables (e.g. advertisement spending, price of rooms) in a National Business Simulation Competition. Although the process of constructing model was very time-consuming, I never lost interest and I was thrilled when I developed a model that simulated the data well.
Afterwards, I realized that I can work passionately and innovatively when in my interested field. In the Management of Corporate Financial Risk class, I exerted myself to learn new skills. One of my assignments in that class was demonstrating Support Vector Machines (SVM) with an application which requires a profound understanding of classification and regression. Although as an accounting major student with limited programming skills, I broke away from the confines of the reference material I provided, which only introduced the application of SVM on SPSS. Based on the knowledge I learned MATLAB class, I referred to other programmers' code of SVM application and wrote a set of codes successfully to predict return on investment using financial data in the past. With the help of my teacher, I added the factorial analysis of SPSS in my application of SVM. In the end, I wrote a thesis about this application and it was published on the Global Market Information Guide, a national magazine.
I know from the course description that I can learn many programming skills and financial analysis in this program and thus I am very interested to continue my study at Olin.
Thank you.
