+92 340 6745857 The Data Incubator is a data sciutence education company. It offers corporate data science training and placement services. It is best known for an 8-week educational fellowship preparing students with

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for careers in

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data science Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, stru ...

Founding

The Data Incubator was founded in 2014 in

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by Tianhui Michael Li, a former data scientist at local-mobile-social startup

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. The company was incubated by

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. 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. The program has four campuses:

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, and Online. The program also offers corporate training to Fortune 500 clients. According to

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, the program had over 1000 applicants from over 80 universities in its first round and accepted just under 3% of all applicants. The program was selected by

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as one of 15 competitive programs in the world with more competitive admissions than

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Growth

In 2015, the program launched in

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and

. In December 2015, the program established their first international campus in collaboration with The Center of Applied Data Science in

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with support from the national government. In 2015 The Data Incubator was ranked second by Data Economy for data science incubators. In April 2016, the program was launched in the United Kingdom with government support through The Data Lab. In March, 2018, the company announced a partnership with

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

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: *

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core contributor and

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researcher Andreas Mueller * SIGKDD and KDD founder Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro * Stanford Professor and

Databricks Databricks, Inc. is a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. The company provides a cloud-based platform to help enterprises build, scale, and govern data an ...

founder Matei Zaharia. *

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Pulitzer-nominated journalist

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Principal Data Scientist Kirk Borne

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Data Science Fellowship Program
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