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The Data Incubator
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Websitehttps://www.thedataincubator.com

The Data Incubator is a

educational fellowship preparing students with Master's degrees and PhDs for careers in big data and data science.[2]

Founding

The Data Incubator was founded in 2014 in

Tianhui Michael Li, a former data scientist at local-mobile-social startup Foursquare and Andreessen Horowitz.[3][4] The company was incubated by Cornell Tech.[3]

The company is best known for an 8-week educational fellowship preparing students with Masters and PhD degrees for careers in big data and data science. The fellowship's expenses are paid for by hiring companies and it remains free for admitted fellows. The program is no longer free, the Data Science program costs 10k for Online and 18K for in-person program.

Washington DC, San Francisco, and Online.[1] The program also offers corporate training to Fortune 500 clients.[5]

According to

Harvard.[7]

Growth

In 2015, the program launched in Washington, DC and San Francisco.[8] In December 2015, the program established their first international campus in collaboration with The Center of Applied Data Science in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with support from the national government.[9]

In 2015 The Data Incubator was ranked second by Data Economy for data science incubators.[10]

In April 2016, the program was launched in the United Kingdom with government support through The Data Lab.[11][12][13]

In March, 2018, the company announced a partnership with

SAP Fieldglass's Digital Network. The partnership provides Fieldglass's Digital Network with highly sought-after data science talent.[14]

Data Science in 30 Minutes Online Lecture Series

The company hosts an ongoing online lecture series entitled "Data Science in 30 Minutes" featuring leading figures in data science and big data. Participants include:[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "The Data Incubator - Data Science Fellowship".
  2. ^ a b Toscano, Nick (2015-02-06). "The Complete List of Data Science Bootcamps & Fellowships". Skilled Up.
  3. ^ a b Vijayan, Jaikumar (2014-05-01). "Cornell Tech funded startup launching bootcamp for data scientists". Computer World.
  4. ^ "Founder Michael Li's Hertz Foundation Profile".
  5. ^ "The Data Incubator - Corporate Training".
  6. Venture Beat
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  7. ^ Sterbenz, Christina; Jackson, Abby (2015-11-21). "15 things that are harder to get into than Harvard". Business Insider.
  8. ^ Swanner, Nate (2015-07-02). "Data Incubator Opens a West Coast Campus to Groom the Next Generation of Data Scientists". The Next Web.
  9. ^ Hoong, Tan Kit (2015-11-03). "Train to be a data scientist". The Malaysian Star.
  10. ^ McNulty, Eileen (2015-11-24). "Top 5 Data Science Incubators and Accelerators". Dataconomy.
  11. ^ "The Data Lab puts the boot camp into Scotland". Data IQ. 2016-04-21.
  12. ^ "World class data science 'Boot Camp' launched in Scotland". Scottish Business News. 2016-04-25.
  13. ^ Reed, David (2016-08-19). "Taking data science from Capitol Hill to Boot Camp".
  14. ^ Vizard, Mike (2018-03-12). "SAP Aims to Bridge Gap Between HR and the Gig Economy".
  15. ^ "Data Science in 30 Minutes".

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