Proposal for an Apprenticeship in Data Science

For motivated students who can learn on their own, here's an option that I would like to offer: the possibility to become an expert data scientist in less than six months, for a cost well below $10,000, and with guaranteed job opportunities.

The program would be open to everyone without screening, but the degree and the guaranteed jobs would be offered only to students with a successful completion of selected projects. If you don't succeed, you don't pay.

The program would contain three parts:

20-pages booklet containing all the info you need to jump-start your data science career, written in simple English:

how to download Python, Perl, Java, R, get sample programs, get started with writing an efficient web crawler, get started with Linux, Cygwin, Excel (including logistic regression) Hadoop, MapReduce, NoSQL their limitations and more modern technologies how to find data sets or download very lage data sets for free on the web how to analyze data: from understanding business requirements to maintaining an automated (machine talking to machine) web / database application in production mode  - a 12 steps process how to develop your first "Analytics as a Service" application and scale it big data algorithms, and how to make them more efficient and more robust (application in computational optimization: how to efficiently test trillions of trillions of multivariate vectors to design good scores) reference data science bookclick here reference data science book  available for free ( click here  to see 2nd Edition) data visualization, dashboards and how to communicate like a management consultant rules of thumb, best practices, craftsmanship secrets, and why is data science an art? lift and other metrics to measure success, metrics selection, use of external data, make data silos communicate via fuzzy merging and statistical techniques

If interested, join our Data Science Apprenticeship group to receive updates about our program and schedule, and to receive an invitation to participate as well as free training material, when the program is open.