Data Science Dojo

One of the best trainings I have ever attended. Raja and his team packaged all of the content that you need to have a well balanced understanding of data science concepts into a well orchestrated week long session that you can go back to work and instantly... Read More start applying. Highly recommended to anyone looking to gain these skills!

Raja and team provide insightful tips in each step of the way. Basically cutting down reading time that I would have to do browsing and learning what to look for. The hands-on structure of the course helped me to get "practice" knowledge instead of just... Read More "head" knowledge of concepts.

Through the concepts, I could identify a couple of low hanging fruits in data analysis and visualization, in which I could apply the concepts to my work context.

It was very cool to be able to run a machine learning model from scratch and understand parameters involved in optimizing it in a real world context.

Attending the program made me comfortable to discuss data science applications during job interviews.

Finally, I think the experience at the camp gave me a foundation to jump start my learning from there.

I took this course with very little prior knowledge in data science, with the intention of having enough background knowledge to be a better product manager in the data science/machine learning space. After this bootcamp, I have achieved that and more.... Read More Raja and the team have put together a comprehensive curriculum that gives students a solid foundation in the fundamentals of data science, with less of an emphasis on getting answers and more on framing problems to understand what the right questions to ask are. It was a very good balance of instruction, hands-on exercises, and open discussions to keep everyone engaged and learning.

This is an extremely intensive week, but if you are interested in starting, or continuing, your data science journey, I can't recommend this highly enough. Raja and his team do an amazing job of covering a broad range of topics, while insuring that your... Read More understanding is there before moving on. They also leave you with numerous tools, examples and other references to continue after the week is over. I got far more out of this one week than I have in over a half dozen on-line courses.

This is hands-down the best training class (business or technical) I've attended in the last several years, and an excellent value for money and the time spent. Raja and his team do an amazing job of making everything seem accessible and they demystify... Read More all the concepts. Every concept is both theory and practice - from decision trees, to recommendation engines, to Hadoop clusters to IoT. Coming in, I had zero hands-on experience with the topics, but by Day 5, I feel comfortable enough to hold an educated conversation with data scientists, and I'm confident that if I invest more time learning (using their website and online tutorials), I can build something that works. I also feel confident enough to map the business problems I see in the financial services industry to appropriate techniques.

Raja leads most of the conceptual teaching, and his team do most of the hands-on tool-based exercises. Raja is able to explain complex concepts very simply, and takes the understanding to an intuitive level - there is no hiding behind sophisticated terms. The Kaggle competition was fun, and I learnt a lot by spending time tweaking my models. The class requires a "programmer" mindset to get the most of it.

It is an intense week, and I had to spend about 1-2 hours every day after the classes, doing the HW - sometimes I found this challenging. There were some concepts which were not covered due to lack of time - but like the 80-20 rule, I feel that everything essential was covered very deeply and thoughtfully. The location was at times a little noisy (another class next door) and warmer than I liked but nothing too bad.

Overall - strongly recommend!

I came to this program with an engineering background, and this program opened my eyes to the power of data science tools to understand my data and more effectively solve problems at work. The instructors are knowledgeable, experienced, and easy to understand.... Read More I'm impressed at how much information I was able to comprehend in such a short time.

The program is well balanced to cater to students with prior background in data science as well as to students who have no prior experience. All the instructors are great but in particular Raja is amazing. He puts in a lot of effort to ensure his entire... Read More class understands the concepts and knows how to apply the concepts (he calls it reasoning). The location in NY could have been better but for the most part everything went smoothly. The course materials, online tools and software packages were all excellent. I look forward to being part of the alumni of Datascience Dojo.

Pros:
as a data science professional, but mostly on the "user" side, I found this course to be refreshing, entertaining and VERY informative.
The instructors were very helpful, engaging, and in constant dialogue with the audience.
And everyone had a chance... Read More to run hands-on machine learning simulations on several datasets.
Cons:
I could not think of any. However, be prepared to spend an entire week on this course - it is fully immersive. But you won't mind, because your brain will start spinning.

The boot camp is an excellent beginning for people who want to start working in data science, and for those who already have a journey on the subject, it serves to remember the fundamentals and logic behind the implementations and get tips and suggestions... Read More based on better practices and experience of the instructor. The boot camp includes many material to prepare you for the coming classes and excellent examples implemented in different tools for future projects. All shared through an online platform easy to access and use.

Five days and 50 hours is a lot and definitely not enough. I describe like this, imagine yourself taking the red pill and then you start learning all about what is really happening with and around you in terms of data science technology. I am very grateful... Read More for the opportunity to meet Raja, Arham, Tarun and Rebecca. Thank you all for sharing a little bit of your knowledge and experience with me. The amount of accumulated knowledge you guys have is really impressive. I definitely recommend anyone with or without data science background and experience to sit and listen what the Data Science Dojo Sensei have to say. It was a great honor and terrific experience to be part of the first Data Science and Data Engineering joined with The University of New Mexico Continuing Education.