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The Data Incubator
Location
San Francisco, California, New York City, New York, Washington DC

USA
Information
TypePrivate
Established2014
FoundersMichael Li
PresidentMichael Li
Classes offeredBig data, Data science, Data Mining, Statistics, Time Series, Mapreduce, Machine Learning, Distributed computing, Parallel computing, Natural Language Processing, Unstructured Data, Python, Scala, Spark[1]
CampusUrban
WebsiteTheDataIncubator.com

The Data Incubator is an 8-week educational fellowship preparing students with Master's degrees and PhDs for careers in Big Data and Data science founded in 2014.[2] The fellowship's expenses are paid for by hiring companies and it remains free for admitted fellows. According to it's website, the program has four campuses: New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Online.[3]

Selectivity

The Data Incubator was selected by Business Insider as one of 15 competitive programs in the US with more competitive admissions than Harvard.[4] According to Venture Beat, The program had over 1000 applicants from over 80 universities in its first round and accepted just under 3% of all applicants.[5] The application uses "data-driven hiring for data scientists".[6]

History

The Data Incubator was founded in 2014 in New York City by Michael Li, a former data scientist at JPMorgan Chase, Hedge Fund D. E. Shaw & Co., VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, and local-mobile-social startup Foursquare, and was incubated by Cornell Tech.[7] In 2015, the program launched in San Francisco.[8]

Reception

The Data Incubator was ranked second by Data Economy for Data Science Incubators.[9] The fellowship has garnered the attention of many businesses in Wall Street and Silicon Valley including and works with the Mashable, New York Times, Palantir, EBay, AIG, Yelp, Genentech, Capital One, and Pfizer.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.skilledup.com/articles/list-data-science-bootcamps
  2. ^ http://www.skilledup.com/articles/list-data-science-bootcamps
  3. ^ https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship.html
  4. ^ http://www.businessinsider.com/15-things-that-are-harder-to-get-into-than-harvard-2015-11
  5. ^ "NY Gets New Bootcamp for Data Scientists: It's free but Harder to get into than Harvard".
  6. ^ http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/04/interview-michael-li-data-incubator-hiring.html
  7. ^ "Cornell Tech funded startup launching bootcamp for data scientists".
  8. ^ "Data Incubator Opsn a West Coast Campus to Groom the Next Generation of Data Scientists".
  9. ^ "Top 5 Data Science Incubators and Accelerators".
  10. ^ "NY Gets New Bootcamp for Data Scientists: It's free but Harder to get into than Harvard".
  11. ^ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/02/data-incubator-opens-a-west-coast-campus-to-groom-the-next-generation-of-data-scientists/#gref

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