I really liked how realistic and practical all the tasks were. Instead of just learning theory, actually working through data anonymisation, turning unstructured X/Twitter posts into clean analytics, and designing a proper database schema gave me a solid hands-on experience of how real-world data science projects operate.

I liked how the simulation provided practical experience in analysing social media data, understanding customer sentiment, and designing a database. It helped me understand how businesses like CommBank can use data to identify customer concerns, measure engagement, and make better business decisions.

“The tasks felt like real work, from analysing supermarket data in a spreadsheet to anonymising customer data and proposing a database design. Each task built on the last, and the emails from the team lead gave clear goals. I learned practical things like using formulas, protecting privacy and thinking about how a business could use social media data.”