------------------------------- Tia Newhall Professor and Chair, Computer Science Dept Swarthmore College www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall <http:www.cs.swarthmore.edu/%7Enewhall> 610-690-5637 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonah Sinick <jsinick at gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:53 AM Subject: Data science job training for Swarthmore computer science students To: newhall at cs.swarthmore.edu Dear Professor Newhall, I'm the lead technical instructor at Signal Data Science <http://signaldatascience.com/>, an 8 week intensive training program that rapidly prepares students with strong quantitative backgrounds for industry. Our summer program may be of interest to Swarthmore computer science recent graduates and alumni. Can you pass the material below along to the student mailing list? Thanks, Jonah PhD, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign =================================== *What * Signal Data Science <http://signaldatascience.com/> is an 8 week intensive training program that prepares students with strong quantitative skills for industry jobs as data scientists. We teach - Programming in R - Scraping and cleaning data - Exploring and analyzing data using statistics - Predictive modeling - Presenting findings - Interviewing skills We offer a pair programming-focused curriculum, facilitating students to learn from each other’s strengths. We cover everything from basic linear regression to advanced, industry-relevant methods like gradient boosting and dimensionality reduction. You’ll learn from a combination of lectures, short knowledge-reinforcement problems, and longer, more open-ended assignments focusing on analyzing real datasets. *Why and Who* Data science is a rapidly growing and lucrative field <http://courses.csail.mit.edu/18.337/2015/docs/50YearsDataScience.pdf>. Students with strong quantitative backgrounds have often developed most of the analytical skills needed, and would be highly sought in industry if they developed the programming, predictive modeling and interviewing skills needed. We bridge the gap. *When and Where* This summer cohort runs from July 5th – August 26th in Berkeley, CA. *Contact Info* If you'd like to learn more about the program, you can contact us at <signaldatascience at gmail.com>signaldatascience at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/private/job-opps/attachments/20160610/1ee83c73/attachment.html>