S03E08 - The market view of data education - with Richie Cotton
From Half Stack Data Science by Half Stack Data Science
March 11, 2024 · 47 min · Season 3 · Episode 8
About this episode
In this episode, David interviews Richie Cotton about the evolution of data education and DataCamp's offerings.
A reminder that David's book, Solve Any Data Analysis Problem, is out later this year and you can already buy it and read it in its draft form as part of Manning's Early Access Program. If you want to practise your data skills on real world problems and learn a reusable framework to use on any project in the future, this book is for you. Find out more here: https://www.manning.com/books/solve-any-data-analysis-problem Now onto today's episode. We're continuing our series of conversations about data education and in this episode we spoke to Richie Cotton. Richie is a data evangelist at DataCamp. He started his career as a data scientist, working in industries from chemical health and safety to debt collection to proteomics. After joining DataCamp in 2016, he switched to teaching data and AI skills. He has created ten courses on data science that have been taken by over 700k learners, and worked with instructors to create over 50 courses that have been taken by millions of learners. Richie has also written two books and R programming, Learning R and Testing R Code. In his current role, Richie hosts the DataFramed podcast and runs the DataCamp webinar program, as well as creating…
People in this episode
Guest: Richie Cotton
Topics covered
- data education
- data science
- AI skills
Keywords
- data analysis
- DataCamp
- data skills
- online learning
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Solve Any Data Analysis Problem, DataCamp
Books & works: Solve Any Data Analysis Problem, Learning R and Testing R Code, DataFramed
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