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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
Master's degree
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s and
PhDs
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for careers in
big data
Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...
and
data science
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.
Founding
The Data Incubator was founded in 2014 in
New York City
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by
Tianhui Michael Li, a former data scientist at local-mobile-social startup
Foursquare
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Internet and entertainment
* Foursquare City Guide, a local search and discovery app
* 4 Square (game show), ''4 Square'' (game show), a British game show
* 4 Square (TV series), ''4 Squ ...
and
Andreessen Horowitz
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.
The company was incubated by
Cornell Tech
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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: ]New York City
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, Washington DC
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, San Francisco
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, and Online.[ The program also offers corporate training to Fortune 500 clients.]
According to Venture Beat
Venture may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
*The Ventures, an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958
*"A Venture", 1971 song by the band Yes
*''Venture'', a 2010 EP by AJR
Games
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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 Business Insider
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as one of 15 competitive programs in the world with more competitive admissions than Harvard
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.
Growth
In 2015, the program launched in Washington, DC
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and San Francisco
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. In December 2015, the program established their first international campus in collaboration with The Center of Applied Data Science in Kuala Lumpur
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, Malaysia
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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 SAP
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Sap is distinct from latex, resin, or cell sap; it is a s ...
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:
* scikit-learn
scikit-learn (formerly scikits.learn and also known as sklearn) is a free and open-source machine learning library for the Python programming language.
It features various classification, regression and clustering algorithms including support ...
core contributor and NYU
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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.
* New York Times
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Pulitzer-nominated journalist Alan Schwarz
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* Booz Allen Hamilton
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Principal Data Scientist Kirk Borne
References
External links
Data Science Fellowship Program
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