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<p>Data Science Retreat (DSR) helps coders or people with significant quantitative training (e.g. science, engineering, or math graduates) ramp-up fast for a career in data science - arguably the fastest-growing, highest-demand profession. DSR is a 3-month, rigorous, and full-time/intensive course in the startup-capital of Europe: Berlin. Learn software engineering, data science, and business communication faster and more deeply with mentors doing code reviews plus pair-programming - all on real-world data and valuable problems. You will develop a portfolio project, demonstrating you can own a business problem, solve it, and communicate why your results are definitive.</p>
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<p>Marketplace demands and needs have outpaced any educational programs. we are not seeing too many programs which really round out the entire package of skills needed. We think most of the even new data mining and analytics programs are back around the 2005 time period. Things are shifting so fast that <strong>unless you are learning all this stuff on your own, you will not be prepared for the job market</strong> in many cases.</p>
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<p>Co-founder & CTO of Datasalt. He’s core committer in two Hadoop-based open-source projects, Splout SQL and Pangool. Splout provides a SQL view over Hadoop's Big Data with sub-second latencies and high throughput. Pangool is an improved low-level Java API for Hadoop based on the Tuple MapReduce paradigm (ICDM 2012). Pere is an early adopter of Hadoop, working in Big Data projects since 2008. He’s also the organizer of Big Data Beers Berlin.</p>
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<p>Mikio is co-founder and chief data scientist at TWIMPACT, a startup working on real-time event analysis for all kinds of applications. He’s also the author of Streamdrill, a library that solves the top 10 problem. The top items for all trends are continuously updated from the data you send in. No need for iterative computation or big heaps of data to start the analysis. Mikio also wrote jblas, and is currently a PostDoc in machine learning at Technische Universität Berlin.</p>
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<p>Olivier is a regular contributor to the scikit-learn library, the leading Machine Learning library for python. He has considerable expertise in text Mining and Natural Language Processing. He’s also well versed in Cloud Computing technologies to automate cluster deployments and continuous integration for data-intensive applications.</p>
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<p>Adam is currently the Chief Data Scientist and Director of Engineering for Zanox, Europe’s largest affiliate network. He has been in technology roles for over 15 years in a variety of industries, including online marketing, financial services, healthcare, and oil and gas. His background is in Applied Mathematics, and his interests include online learning systems, high-frequency/low-latency data processing systems, recommender systems, distributed systems, and functional programming (especially in Haskell).</p>
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<p>Yes, you will need a solid background on linear algebra and probability theory to create new algorithms. But this is very different from what you need to simply apply algorithms known to work for a class of problems. Vision + good judgement + intuition + hacking skills + natural analytic skills + craftsmanship + curiosity + Google skills are in fact more useful and less expensive than advanced math knowledge.</p>
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<p><strong>Where: Berlin, Germany</strong>, one of the world’s great cities, the upcoming “startup capital of Europe” that’s also affordable and brimming with software and startup activities.</p>
<p><strong>When:</strong> Batch one, Jan 6th to Mar 28th, 2014. Batch two, April 4th to June 27th.</p>
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<p><strong>Class size</strong>: Ten to fifteen students will be accepted.</p>
<p><strong>Cost:</strong>7000 eur, 2000 eur deposit if accepted. Possible to pay in installments. If you get hired through our placement program, you will get 2000 eur back.</p>
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<p>We expect you to have basic programming experience and familiarity with databases. Exercises will be in R or python. You'd need to have a basic understanding of at least one of these languages. In the application form you can say whether you want to use a different one: Clojure/incanter and Julia could be the next languages we support.</p>
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