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MSCI 543Analytics and User Experience

Faculty
Engineering
Last listed
Spring 2024

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024 and last ran in Spring 2024. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. S22
  2. W23
  3. S23
  4. S24

Ran in 4 terms, Spring 2022 to Spring 2024.

This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of methods for evaluating the user experience on a large scale. Students will learn how to design user experiments that involve the collection and analysis of large quantities of data online, apply useful metrics for evaluating the user experience, and use this analysis to inform their designs of software and technology. [Offered: S]

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: (One of MSCI 253, SYDE 212); (One of MSCI 343, SYDE 348, 548)

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

7 posts and comments in 7 threads mention MSCI 543, April 2021 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2024

Admission / High School Megathread (Fall 2024) 24 points, 20 comments

“This megathread is for prospective frosh and current high school students interested in Waterloo. Ask your questions here. …”

u/Own-Commercial6118: “heyy I'm in high school and just learned about the management engineering program at uwaterloo. I've seen some of the courses and do you need to be good at programming to succeed? …”

u/1000Ditto: “… programming you can also take coureses that are a combination, eg the analytics course (msci 543) has business factors (saas, tpm, churn, customer retention rates, nps), stats wrt a/b testing and different types of data collection (eye tracking, performance metrics, survey …”

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Spring 2023

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

Management Eng v.s. Computer Eng v.s. SYDE? 0 points, 9 comments

“This might not be the place to ask this question, sorry if it isn’t. I’m interested in a software engineering/developer career. …”

u/wagwanm0n: “Easiest to get into management and prospects for software jobs are great. Good amount of coding courses too”

u/Alternative_Way_3534: “… Analytics and User Experience (MSCI 543) 9. Advanced Machine Learning (MSCI 546) 10. Decision Support Systems (MSCI 436) - (course is 50% operations research) Are taught as they would be in a CS program, for the most part. …”

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Spring 2021

Job Opportunities and Workload: SYDE, Tron, and Management 1 point, 9 comments

“I have recently been thinking of switching from mechanical engineering and am deciding between SYDE, Tron, and Management. …”

u/wagwanm0n: “Management does have a good number of coding courses”

u/original-random: “… 446 Intro to Machine Learning MSCI 546 Advanced Machine Learning MSCI 541 Search Engines MSCI 543 Analytics and User Experience https://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/ENG-Management-Engineering So, it is easy to have 10 courses (25% of all your courses) be computing courses in …”

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Winter 2021

Management Engineering 10 points, 14 comments

u/1000Ditto: “1. ok depending on you as a person, one of the easiest, be wary of 3b esp msci332, me 235, msci 261, msci 263 2. pm/data/general business/basic mech stuff/ programming 3. …”

u/original-random: “… did not have, including natural science electives, MSCI 251 and 253, MSCI 302, MSCI 546, MSCI 543, and English in 1B, and more.”

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