Introduction

I am Olusola Palacios, I live in Tampa, FL. I earned my bachelor’s degree from South University, in Health Science; however, I have been in and out of Information Technology or rather, its process, either by trying things out, by taking classes here and there or being involved in breaking and fixing something, I guess it’s just curiosity and passion.  With that said, I find myself working with the IT teams or being the IT person in my team. Hence, I figured it was best for me to pursue a career in IT/IS.

Although I work in the legal field, I have been fortunate to work with a non-profit, providing them with full database administrative support and I help analyze data and secure their database. Also, in my current role in a law firm, I have been able to assist with customizing the database, providing basic firm cybersecurity, risk analysis and automating work products, and in turn, minimizing the firm’s overall costs, errors as well as increase productivity.

I find data science and business intelligence fascinating, and currently excited about taking this class! I previously took Data Mining for Business Intelligence class, I found it incredible and since then, I have worked on so many publicly available structured data. This class, however, will help continue to learn about business intelligence, and I am very curious as to how to collect unstructured data as it appears to be growing daily.