| | | This course was a great and fair step in helping me to determine if data science was the right path for me. The course gives you all the tools and best methods you need to get an introduction to data science. As long as you try, you can get a pretty good assessment if data science is something you want to build a career out of or just an additional skill you want to add. I would much rather do this in a stress-free and at-your-own-pace environment than a degree program: it minimizes the monetary risk and you can focus on the material that is most relevant to the work you do. For me, this course was a great move to advance my career and build a more technical career path at my current company. Should I ever decide to leave my current role, I now have a skill set that makes me a little more marketable! |
| | Landon Barnickle | Springboard's Data Science Intensive is a great blend of self paced study, practical coursework, and mentor led training. As part of my mid-career self improvement, I had begun looking at post graduate data science programs at nearby universities. During my research I came across Springboard which was offering a course of training that covered all the same topics as the university programs with better cost and schedule, and complete with access to a data science mentor currently working in the industry.
Having completed the program in early 2017, I feel I came out with a solid technical foundation in data science techniques and tools. On top of that, the practical advice from my awesome mentors was highly valuable with insights into day to day responsibilities and expectations. And, while the sense of community may not have been directly integrated into the course, Springboard does provide the infrastructure of slack channels and office hours for support and communication among students. |
| | Tancy | Compared to other online data science training programs, the best part of the SpringBoard is the mentor system in which they assigned a prominent Data Scientist working in the industry as your mentor. Using google search, everyone can easily find thousands of websites for the data science courses. However, for the people without data science background, like me, it is very hard to know what kind of knowledge and skills for the data science in the real world. This training equipped with both theoretical and practical skills to solve industry problems. With the mentor system, I was assigned a mentor to learn first hand how to think like and solve problems like a data scientist. At the end of the training, I finished a project to solve a data science issue in the real world. The feedback from the expert is extremely important for those people want to find a data science job but have no experience on that. The only one thing to complain is my mentor knows too much, it is hard for me to digest all of them in a short time. Except for the mentor system, I also enjoyed the data science community. In the community, you can post questions or share the experience with others. I always learned a lot of update information about data science there even after finished the training program. |
