THROUGH its UBPXcellerator program, Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) recently launched the Data Science Development Program (DSDP), another first in the industry. DSDP was a free data science course for aspiring data scientists that covered topics such as data science basics, data visualization, programming, machine learning and building data portfolio.

Developed by UnionBank's Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AI-CoE), the comprehensive program would run for six weeks with 19 self-paced modules, including weekly enrichment sessions with UnionBank's top data scientists.