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- 1. Become a DataScientist A Thinkful Info Session January 2018 1
- 2. About us Justin Ezor Founderof Hacker Fund, CTRL Collective, Silicon Beach Sports League Thinkful LA Community Manager David Samuel Thinkful Data Science Mentor Founder Cryptobox IT Consultant 2
- 3. About you! What's yourname? What brought you here today? Why are you interested in Data Science? 3
- 4. About Thinkful We traindevelopers and data scientists through 1x1 mentorship and project-based learning. Guaranteed.Guaranteed. 4
- 5. Agenda What is datascience? Our philosophy and approach Program overview Next steps 5
- 6. "Big Data" ischanging the game Over the past ten years user generated content (social media) and mobile has led to an explosion in the volume, velocity, and variety of data. 6
- 7. This is accelerating 90%of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. IBM, May 2013 7
- 8. Basically, we're drowningin data 8
- 9. What is adata scientist? 9
- 10. A data scientistis a jack of all trades 10
- 11. Data science inaction LinkedInLinkedIn - Who might you know? UberUber - Where should drivers hang out? NetflixNetflix - What do people want to watch? 11
- 12. If this excitesyou... 12
- 13. ... there's ahuge shortage “The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts to analyze big data and make decisions based on their findings.” 13
- 14. These jobs areabout skills, not credentials If you can prove you have the skills, you are employable. This levels the playing fields making it possibleThis levels the playing fields making it possible for many paths to learning.for many paths to learning. 14
- 15. Our philosophy 1x1 mentorship Project-basedlearning Flexibility in schedule Job placement guarantee 15
- 16. 1x1 mentorship "The averagetutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class." -Benjamin Bloom, 1984 study Conventional learning 16
- 17. Meet your mentoron our platform 17
- 18. Your mentor willguide your learning Ask questions to better understand concepts They’ll review your work and provide suggestions Help scope, review, and approve capstones Keeps you on track — your personal learning trainerKeeps you on track — your personal learning trainer 18
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- 20. Flexibility in schedule Onlineprogram enables students to learn anywhere, anytime, and at their own pace. You don’t have to quit your job to start a careerYou don’t have to quit your job to start a career transition.transition. 20
- 21. Job placement guarantee! Geta job within SIX MONTHSSIX MONTHS or get your money back. 21
- 22. Our students receiveunprecedented support 1x1 Learning Mentor 1x1 Career CoachProgram Manager You Q&A Sessions 22
- 23. Python-based curriculum Data andanalysis (cleaning, visualization, etc) Supervised learning (Naive bayes, Decision trees, etc) Unsupervised learning (Clustering, Neural networks) Other topics (algorithms, scraping, big data) Specializations (e.g. NLP, TensorFlow, etc) 23
- 24. Pricing $7,990 with multiplefinancing options available 24
- 25. Thinkful's Free Course bit.ly/ds-la-freebit.ly/ds-la-free Accessto 80 hours of our Data Science curriculum for two weeks Unlimited live Q&A sessions Start with Python's Data Science Toolkit Option to continue with full bootcamp 25