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Department of Statistics and Population Studies
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Department of Statistics and Population Studies - Data Science at UWC
For more information regarding our new BSC (Hons) and MSc with specialization in Data Science. Click on the button below to few attachements.
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Prof. Blignaut presents at SAS DSAA Forum 2016
"Prof. Blignaut presents at the SAS Data Science and Advanced Analytics forum, 6-7 June 2016, London, UK."
"Prof. Blignaut was invited Prof Stiegler were invited to this important conference in the area of data analytics, where Prof. Blignaut presented to clleagues from other universities in the world and the industry representatives the views and plans from of our department to create a data science stream in our Honours in Statistics programme as per 2017" Click on button to view more...
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Data Science Graduates at UWC
UWC is graduating its first three students, Tayla Wannenberg, Yusrie Sadan and Samuel Mubenga in our collaborative MSc (Statistical Science) programme. This one-year master’s programme specialising in Data Science is offered in collaboration with Northwest University’s (NWU) Centre for Business, Mathematics and Informatics. Funding to launch this joint programme was provided by Sanlam and SAS® provided the needed specialised software to help us train the students. As part of the training, students do an internship at a company during the second semester which forms the basis of their industry directed research. The Department of Statistics and Population Studies staff joined forces with the NWU lecturers to make this unique training opportunity a great success. Well done to all involved!
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SAS Bootcamp 2014
Eighteen post graduate students from the Statistics and Population Studies Department took part in the SAS Bootcamp training from the 10th February till the 14th February 2014. The SAS Bootcamp training session has become an annual training session for post-graduate students and is provided free of charge by SAS as part of their worldwide university partnership initiative.
All students who attended the training session completed the SAS Programming 1 (Version 9.3) and Enterprise Guide (Version 4.3) level training not only equipped with skills that are a necessity for their studies but it will also be advantage for them going forward in their future careers.
The SPS departments warmly thank SAS, Mr De Villiers and Mr Breda for making this training possible.
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Myanmar Census 2014
The Republic of the Union of Maynamar (Burma) organised from 29th March 2014 to 10th April 2014, it's first Population and Housing census in three decades.
The Department of Population (DoP) at the Ministry of Immgration and Population (MoIP) in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organised an observation mission of the data collection for the duration of the filed work.
The Statistics and Population Studies Department (SPS) at the University of the Western Cape was part of this exciting project, with four of our junior researchers serving as international observers. Indeed, Mrs Judith Dor Donang, Mr Aristide Bado, Dr. Ogujuiba and Dr. Basuayi were deployed in different states, together with 18 other International obsevers and 25 national observers, under the supervision of the SPS department HoD, Prof. Nancy Stiegler who was also the mission coordinator.
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PG Welcome 2016
"The department of Statistics and Population Studies officially welcomed today our new and returning Post-Graduate Students. After an orientation session, students and staff had the chance to enjoy a finger lunch and discuss this exciting year to come.
We are very glad to train this year thirty-two new honours students, and to continue our intellectual journey with our Masters and PhD students. We wish them all well, and we, the pedagogic team. are convinced that this year will be a year of knowledge sharing and academic success.
Again as the HOD i wish a warm welcome to all our students in the SPS family, and Reiterate that together we will achieve greate things! Prof Nancy Stiegler"
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Math4Stats 2014
On the 17th May 2014, the third Maths4Stats training in the Western Cape was concluded. These training sessions were presented for the third consecutive year in the Western Cape when StatsSA, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) and the Statistics and Population Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape took hands. More than 60 different Mathematics teachers registered for these training session per year. In order to qualify for the attendance certificate, teachers had to attend all training sessions spread over two months. 60 teachers were awarded certificate at the ceremony held on the 17 May 2014.
The training covered content related to Statistics topics which were newly incorporated into the CAPS Mathematics Grade 10 to 12 curriculum from 2012. Topics such as data handling, probability and regression and correlation were taught. Teachers were educated on how to use SAS curriculum Pathways, a free online training application for learners and teachers with a variety of teaching modes. SuperCross, a specialized computer application provided by StatsSA was demonstrated to show teachers how to extract information from census databases.
Four lectures from the Statistics and Population Studies Department at UWC and one lecturer from the Statistics and Actuarial Sciences Department, University of Stellenbosch, presented the statistical training. Mr Loren Wesso (Former UWC employee) now a data analyst at I&J Fisheries presented the SAS curriculum Pathways demonstration and Desireee Timmet from StatsSA presented the SuperCross demonstration. Demonstrations on the latest calculator functions were conducted by representatives from Casio and Sharp. We are thankful for SAS who came on board in 2014 to sponsor daily refreshments and for the statistical institute who sponsored the finger lunch after the certificate ceremony. In 2014, Sharp provided funding to pay our students who acted as tutors during the training sessions. Without this combined effort the training would not have been possible.
The Statistics and Population Studies Department commends all the willing lecturers, especially Prof. Renette Blignaut (Statistics and Populations Studies Associate Professor & Deputy Chairperson, UWC Math4Stats Co-coordinator) who participated in this second successful outreach programme.