As Big Data Plateaus, Data Science Education Grows

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @11:38PM from the looking-for-a-new-buzzword dept.

gthuang88 writes: Even as the hype around big data has died down, opportunities for data scientists are expanding. Johns Hopkins, NYU, and MIT are among the schools offering courses in data science, and IBM and other big companies are investing heavily in training programs. Now a startup called DataCamp has raised $1 million to expand online courses in R programming, Apache Spark, and other topics. The deal speaks to the opportunity that venture capitalists see in training the next generation of data scientists and business analysts. It also shows online education is specializing beyond platforms like Codecademy, Coursera, and Udacity.

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As Big Data Plateaus, Data Science Education Grows

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