AAS Essay - How will the proposed study contribute to your career*? (Master in Data Science)

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How will the proposed study contribute to your career*?

After I accomplish my Master's degree, applying all the knowledge and experiences to my beloved country will be my biggest expectation. Indonesia is the fourth in the world regarding as country with the most internet users 171 million. The information spreads widely, but the truth is uncontrollable. According to the Indonesia survey institution's KIC survey, there are 30-60% of people in Indonesia exposed to fake news on the internet. Meanwhile, there are only 20% of the people that able to identify fake news. I would love to invent an application that identifies fake news. And I hope this invention will reduce the exposure of fake news to 0%.

As a starting point and my short-term plan, I will work for a big news agency as a Data Scientist. The Master's degree will benefit me the most to get a job in one of the top news agencies. Working in the company will give me a huge chance to apply all the knowledge also practice I got during my study. At the same time allows me to acquire knowledge from the company for at least 3-5 years ahead. My short-term goal is to gain an understanding of the characteristic of news. As a data scientist, I should learn furthermore about the application of Natural language processing and Text-mining that I learned from my Master's degree, as a foundation of fake news detectors that I will develop. After acquiring knowledge from the company, I plan to build a fake news detector application from the project that I made in my Bachelor's degree.

Combining the knowledge from the Master's degree and my working experience into the application will be my mid-term career goal. Following the plan, I will work simultaneously with the news agencies and propose this invention as a measuring tool to verify the news that they will be issued. So, the readers will get the trust score or how trustworthy it is.

This should not be an expectation but a contribution. The prompt does not ask you to address expectations. Does your invention somehow directly relate to data science? It sounds more like coding and programming to me. If it is a side contribution that cannot directly relate to your masters course, you can skip it. The contribution should focus on data science development in your country.

Be more specific about your agency targets. Name the agency. Why that agency? How does it help you reach your main goal? Vagueness shows a lack of future career planning, not to be confused with future ambitions. The recap atthe end is not necessary. You need to instead, close with a hopeful note that refers to the excitement of achieving these goals through the masters course.

@Holt
Great advices, Holt. thank you so much!