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i just looked through the unsw handbook and it seems pretty cool but a lot of these subjects (data science, actuarial, macro whatever that person said, etc) seem to come with a lot of economics, idk if you or anyone else would know but is that like extremely hard or is it kinda fine? im not the biggest fan of business-y stuff so im just wondering if i'd be able to survive it without wanting to end it all lol
Are you sure you hate economics that much? Like I went into yr 11 sorta thinking that eco was mid (don't ask me why I chose it, I wanted to do a HSIE subject to balance things out and eco was the most mathy ig), but now I love it
 

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Are you sure you hate economics that much? Like I went into yr 11 sorta thinking that eco was mid (don't ask me why I chose it, I wanted to do a HSIE subject to balance things out and eco was the most mathy ig), but now I love it
idk maybe im yet to find out, im not vehemently opposed to it but ive just always preferred sciencey maths over businessy maths lol
 

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i just looked through the unsw handbook and it seems pretty cool but a lot of these subjects (data science, actuarial, macro whatever that person said, etc) seem to come with a lot of economics, idk if you or anyone else would know but is that like extremely hard or is it kinda fine? im not the biggest fan of business-y stuff so im just wondering if i'd be able to survive it without wanting to end it all lol
I'll see if I still have my Econometrics notes so you can have a look at it
 

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Is uni maths really that much harder than adv. or ext.? Thinking of maybe doing Engineering but not sure how insane the maths gets
i would say sorta a continuation of ext 2 difficulty wise in first year and then it really ramps up after that, but also uni is a lot more lenient with a lot of stuff and you don’t need to master things completely, and you can cheese a lot of stuff.
 

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i just looked through the unsw handbook and it seems pretty cool but a lot of these subjects (data science, actuarial, macro whatever that person said, etc) seem to come with a lot of economics, idk if you or anyone else would know but is that like extremely hard or is it kinda fine? im not the biggest fan of business-y stuff so im just wondering if i'd be able to survive it without wanting to end it all lol
data science shouldn’t include any economics (except for maybe unsw because their data science is super weirdly structured)
 

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i would say sorta a continuation of ext 2 difficulty wise in first year and then it really ramps up after that, but also uni is a lot more lenient with a lot of stuff and you don’t need to master things completely, and you can cheese a lot of stuff.
i feel like the only thing that made mx2 hard were the questions. the actual concepts weren't that hard. first year math teaches mx2 and beyond concepts but with easier questions.
 

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data science shouldn’t include any economics (except for maybe unsw because their data science is super weirdly structured)
That's probably a debatable topic, because Economics has a lot of similarities with data science. Some people think Economics is just applied Data Science on human's economic behaviours, and this is primarily because ds and econ uses EXACTLY the same method.

For example, in Economics, we use methods such as t-testing, linear algebra, regression analysis, ANOVA, and Machine Learning, etc.

These are all methods that comes from Data Science and Statistics.

But the main difference between Data Science and Economics is that most of the Data Science is about predicting outcomes, but most Economics is about explaining relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variable(s). So you could be arguing for both sides for this issue. The reason why UNSW's ds curriculum has Economics is probably because it's a very business focused uni.
 

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Would you happen to know about UNSW's BSci - Adv Math (Hon) or maybe some of its constituent subjects - like applied or pure mathematics?
 

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