Graduate / Tried rewording and pruning, but having difficulty fitting the 250 words limit. Data Analytics Msc [4]

I need to cut short my essay to maximum 250 words. I have tried pruning and rephrasing, but, I don't really want to compromise on my content. The essay must describe my background and how the graduate studies will help me. The graduate course is for 1 year with a co-op opportunity. I have posted my Statement below. Swift and valuable feedbacks will be appreciated. It is kind of urgent. Thank you.

Some events have long lasting impacts on life. For me, it was the tech-entrepreneurship expo that I had attended while pursuing undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering. Business, technology and entrepreneurship all under one roof, attending the event brought about an epiphany about interdisciplinary nature of modern day's economy and the power of data. It led me to explore online courses to get more insights and help prepare myself better for the industry, through this endeavor I stumbled upon a Data Science MOOC and I loved it. I started implementing applied machine learning concepts and performing exploratory analysis in R to derive meaning out of raw historic data. One of my the projects involved applying supervised learning algorithm like Support Vector Machine to predict the activity of human beings and published the research paper on academic.edu. These learnings helped me climb quickly into the top 2% of data scientist in the world on kaggle, an online platform for machine learning competitions. In order to substantiate my learning through practice, I ran a blog on machine learning which quickly attracted 800 followers. I later went on to pursue my callings in the real world when I joined ZS associates as a business analyst, where my previous learnings helped me ease into the role. At ZS I worked in the multichannel marketing projects, which involved exploratory analysis of various marketing channel's historic data of various marketing channels for our clients and creating predictive statistical modelss statistical to help improve the sales and marketing tactics. But I felt the need of of formal solid grounding in the field During all this time I have felt the need to have a structured approach which only a classroom level learning environment could have provided. This is when I came to know about the this in turn would have equipped me with the relevant skill set to to improve my understanding of the over underlying concepts, in the presence of like-minded individuals.MMAsc Program Platform that provides the right platform to me to achieve my goals and will help me leapfrog into corporate world with a solid technical -business foundation. Also the 1-year duration along with the Co-op opportunity will help me get back into the workforce as soon as possible and put my experiential learnings to practice, which is my real calling.