Data Science MOOCs are too Superficial

Author(s): Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D.

Originally published on Towards AI.

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Data Science, Machine Learning, and Analytics are considered to be among the hottest career paths. The demand for skilled data science practitioners in industry, academia, and the government is rapidly growing. The ongoing “data rush” is, therefore, attracting so many professionals with diverse backgrounds such as physics, mathematics, statistics, economics, and engineering. The job outlook for data scientists is very positive. IBM predicts the demand for data scientists to soar 28% by 2020.

The rising demand for data science practitioners has given rise to a proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOC). The most popular providers… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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