{"id":4471,"date":"2019-03-06T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T06:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/spu\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2022-01-26T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:16:25","slug":"data-science-honours-student-puts-spu-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/data-science-honours-student-puts-spu-on-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Atsile puts SPU Data Science on the map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPU\u2019s Data Science Honours programme began on a high note this year with the University receiving a mention in Minister Ebrahim Patel\u2019s speech at the closing of the SONA debate<g class=\"gr_ gr_20 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"20\" data-gr-id=\"20\">.<\/g><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_20 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"20\" data-gr-id=\"20\">In<\/g> the speech, which highlighted the need for new skills as data skills, the Minister pointed out that Sol Plaatje University was empowering students such as <g class=\"gr_ gr_12 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"12\" data-gr-id=\"12\">Atsile<\/g> Itumeleng, one of the university\u2019s Data Science Honours students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atsile says that the honour\nof the mention came unexpectedly and with some pressure.&nbsp; However, \u201cthis is really a start for SPU which\nwas the first university to offer this programme in Africa.&nbsp; And it is great timing to stand out when new\nskills are needed and are in short supply.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/spu\/index.php\/sciences-programmes-bsc-datascience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Science <\/a>incorporates many other fields, one that fosters skills and innovation while at the same it attracts investments and opens doors of opportunity,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPU\u2019s Data Science Honours programme began on a high note this year with the University receiving a mention in Minister Ebrahim Patel\u2019s speech at the closing of the SONA debate. In the speech, which highlighted the need for new skills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/data-science-honours-student-puts-spu-on-the-map\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,4,57],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nas-news","category-news","category-spu-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27907,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/27907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}