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This week, we introduce Dr. Marisa A. Sanchez, one of our new Educators in the 2022 class of Qlik Academic Program Ambassadors. Dr. Marisa is a Professor at the Department of Administration Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Del Sur, Argentina.
Marisa and her family lives in Bahia Blanca, a city is of about 300, 000 inhabitants at the doors of Patagonia in Argentina. Her family includes her husband and a 16-year-old daughter and a 21 year son. She enjoys gardening and that is her most favorite leisure activity!
Marisa’s journey with Qlik began when she was in search for the best-of-the-breed analytics technologies and during this search, she learnt about Qlik. Upon using the product, she became a loyal user due to the features of the Qlik Sense software and the Qlik Academic Program resources. She further adds that Qlik is a world-class technology company, and she is particularly impressed about the quick response from the academic program team, if there are any issues or questions.
Marisa says “We are using Qlik in an undergraduate Management course since 2018. It is a Business Intelligence course under which we cover techniques to support decision making to build models from data such as data visualization and data mining, based on mathematical models like simulation. We also give due importance to data analytics topics as we understand, this will better prepare students in their professional career”
The way the Qlik Academic Program is incorporated into her class is through example files and exercises. In addition, she encourages students to pursue the program’s qualifications and certifications which would add value to their resume’.
There is a great demand of data analytics competencies according to Marisa but in her view, there is a need for a follow-up program after graduation.
Regarding her goals for 2022, Marisa says that this year they would be offering more contents based on the data analytics curriculum from the academic program resources. In addition, in May, they would be starting a data visualization post-graduate course to introduce this subject to both professional and research students. They shall also be attempting to translate the course material in Spanish.
We asked Marisa about her thoughts on trends in analytics and in the context of education. She had some interesting insights to share. She said that some years ago, companies irrespective of their size, used information systems to gather historical data and produced reports, rather shyly. But today, due to the digital transformation and addition of numerous platforms, there has been a transition from product-based to service or platform-based business models. These are instrumental in generating huge amounts of data. In addition, due to the Internet of Things ( IoT) and various social networks, these have become sources of large amount of data. Therefore, it is imperative that higher education should strongly support data analytics and data science education to prepare students in both professional and research careers.
Marisa says that being an Educator Ambassador is a responsibility to make good use of all available resources and share this with colleagues and students. Due to the free resources of the program, it’s a great offering for public universities with reduced budgets.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Marisa Sanchez to the Ambassador Program and congratulating her on her many accomplishments as an Educator and Qlik enthusiast!
To learn more about Educator Ambassadors visit: https://www.qlik.com/us/company/academic-program/ambassadors
If you are interested to learn more about the Qlik Academic Program and its amazing resources, visit qlik.com/academicprogram
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