The Data Incubator
| The Data Incubator | |
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| Location | |
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San Francisco, California, New York City, New York, Washington DC[1] United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Data Science Fellowship |
| Established | 2012 |
| Founder | Michael Li |
| President | Michael Li |
| Faculty | 60+ |
| Classes offered |
Software Engineering Machine Learning Predictive analytics Statistics Data visualization Database design Hadoop Distributed computing Parallelization[1][2] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | TheDataIncubator.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.[2] It was founded in 2012.[2] The fellowship's expenses are paid for by hiring companies and it remains free for admitted fellows.[1] The program has four campuses: New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Online.[1] The program also offers corporate training to Fortune 500 clients.[3]
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.[4] The program was selected by Business Insider as one of 15 competitive programs in the US with more competitive admissions than Harvard.[5]
History
The Data Incubator was founded in 2014 in New York City by Michael Li, a former data scientist at local-mobile-social startup Foursquare and Andreessen Horowitz.[6][7] The company was incubated by Cornell Tech.[6] In 2015, the program launched in Wasington, DC and San Francisco.[8] In December 2015, the program established their first international campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with support from the national government.[9]
Reception
The Data Incubator was ranked second by Data Economy for Data Science Incubators.[10] The fellowship has garnered the attention of many businesses in Wall Street and Silicon Valley and works with companies including Mashable, the New York Times, Palantir, EBay, AIG, Yelp, Genentech, Capital One, and Pfizer.[4][8]
The program's alumni have gone on to work as data scientists at prominent companies and government agencies like
- New York Times [11]
- Palantir [12]
- Capital One [13]
- Freddie Mac [14]
- DARPA [15]
- AIG [16]
- John Hancock [17]
- Betterment [18]
- AppNexus [19]
- Dataminr [20]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "The Data Incubator - Data Science Fellowship".
- 1 2 3 Toscano, Nick (2015-02-06). "The Complete List of Data Science Bootcamps & Fellowships". Skilled Up.
- ↑ "The Data Incubator - Corporate Training".
- 1 2 Blattberg, Eric (2014-04-15). "NY Gets New Bootcamp for Data Scientists: It's free but Harder to get into than Harvard". Venture Beat.
- ↑ Sterbenz, Christina; Jackson, Abby (2015-11-21). "15 things that are harder to get into than Harvard". Business Insider.
- 1 2 Vijayan, Jaikumar (2014-05-01). "Cornell Tech funded startup launching bootcamp for data scientists". Computer World.
- ↑ "Founder Michael Li's Hertz Foundation Profile".
- 1 2 Swanner, Nate (2015-07-02). "Data Incubator Opens a West Coast Campus to Groom the Next Generation of Data Scientists". The Next Web.
- ↑ Hoong, Tan Kit (2015-11-03). "Train to be a data scientist". The Malaysian Star.
- ↑ McNulty, Eileen (2015-11-24). "Top 5 Data Science Incubators and Accelerators". Dataconomy.
- ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: Dorian Goldman – Using a Pure Math Background to Solve Problems for the New York Times".
- ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: Moving to Palantir from Mathematics: Alumni Spotlight on Justin Bush".
- ↑ "Columbia Astrophysics Postdoc Moves to Capital One Labs: Alumni Spotlight on Brian Farris".
- ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: From Particle Physics to Data Science: Alumni Spotlight on Andrew Leister".
- ↑ "Transitioning from Physics Research to Data Science: Alumni Spotlight on Chris Chabalko".
- ↑ "Three best practices for building successful data pipelines".
- ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: Shatrunjai Singh’s Transition to the Data Science of Insurance".
- ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: How a Degree in Social Science Can Lead to a Career as a Data Scientist".
- ↑ "From Engineering PhD to Data Scientist: An Alumni Spotlight on Yash Shah".
- ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: William Groves Talks Computer Science Background and Incubator Taxi Project".