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Data Science Retreat

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Data Science Retreat is a 3-month, full-time, immersive program for advanced data science and machine learning based in Berlin, Germany. DSR's rigorous bootcamp is taught in English and covers data science, business analysis, software engineering, communication, and career coaching. Founded in 2014, DSR provides state-of-the-art data science education and practical coaching to individuals, while also enabling businesses to identify and access untapped talent in a future-proof way. Participants get to work with real-world data and practical problems in order to develop a portfolio project, demonstrating that they can own a business problem, solve it, and communicate why their results are definitive. 

DSR aims to help coders or people with quantitative training (like science, engineering, or math graduates) ramp-up rapidly for a data science career. Participants of the data science bootcamp have an average of 5 years of industry experience. Applicants must complete a 30-minute interview with DSR staff to discuss their background and education, and show their understanding of Python, data science, and machine learning.

Students receive career coaching including interview practice and assistance with resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles. Data Science Retreat has world-class mentors and partners, and provides networking events for students with top-tier technology companies. DSR also provides scholarships to applicants who are already involved with NGOs or for-profits working on projects related to social good, or who would like to start their own businesses focusing on positive environmental and/or social impact.

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  • Lacin Ulas
    Lacin Ulas
    Graduate • Data Science • Berlin
    Nov 30, 2017
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    Data Scientist

    Hello Everyone, 

    I definitely recommend Data Science Retreat, if you are willing to step into Data Science. It is an out-of-box training program, very immersive, pushes you to your limits and offers you the different roads of data science field and you can dive into the specific field you feel excited with the support of your mentor and with the data science network you are immediately surrounded by.

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  • Claudio
    Claudio
    Graduate • Data Science • Berlin
    Jun 01, 2017
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    Unparalleled

    Data science retreat is a unique cocktail of an advanced degree with a professional focus. Students learn from Europes top professors and professionals for theory, but unlike academia, classes focus on how to apply this knowledge and write code to solve real business case studies. After the curriculum, you're responsible for presenting a portfolio project of your choice, a fruit of self study and investigation, to a room full of Berlins CTOs and chief Data Scientists. Un...

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  • felix
    felix
    Graduate • Data Science • Berlin
    Apr 10, 2017
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    intense

    So I didn't have the patience or time to go back to uni and it was getting increasingly lonely doing online courses, and topics such as Apache Spark are simply not available in online courses. I now see why, it is quite fiddly to get it to run on your machine and so the instructors from the two sections we had on it (RDDs, dataframes and real-time/streaming) went through the set-up process. There were many great instructors in this course, again intensive training in NumPy and Pandas and s...

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  • Gregory Vial
    Gregory Vial
    Student • Data Science • Berlin
    Mar 11, 2017
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    Definitely makes you a data scientist

    A refreshing experience that pushes you to explore further data science and create an ambitious portfolio project. You will undoubtly get a job at the end of the course.

    During the bootcamp I personally felt the switch from learner to skilled practitioner, and it gave me great confidence in my abilities as a data scientist. I enjoyed the informal atmosphere and collaboration with my peer learners.

    The pros:

    - Small batches (8 to 10 participants)...

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  • Karthick
    Karthick
    Graduate • Data Science • Berlin
    Mar 11, 2017
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    Strongly Recommend

    Pros - 
        -  I find the screening and selection process quite intensive. So, everyone attending data science retreat are more or less in an intermediate or advanced level. So, you learn a lot from your batch mates.
        - Lecturers are experts in their respective field
        - The regularly updated syllabus me
        - Smaller batch size, in my batch it was 7
        - Attracting practising data scientists to sharpen their skills ( had a batchmate, who was working as a dat...

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  • Lavanya
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    May 30, 2022
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    Very nice experience

    managed professionally with industry experienced instructors. Very flexible as one can switch between multiple batches any time and can keep repeating joining future batches to refresh. Lifetime validity to access online recordings. All the coordinators are very helpful and prompt.
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  • Matt
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    Student • Data Science • Berlin
    Jun 16, 2017
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    Intense Data Science Bootcamp

    The Data Science Retreat is one of the few full-time data science courses in Europe. The 3-months intensive program is... intense. The courses are taught by senior data scientists from industry or from professors in the field. They are taught in blocks of 1-4 days and the topics cover a wide range.

    Where the order of the courses is sometimes a bit confusing, and not all lecturers are of equal quality (both in terms of depth of knowledge and in terms of how they teach), the retrea...

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  • Toavina Andriamanerasoa
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    Data Scientist • Graduate • Data Science • Berlin
    Feb 10, 2017
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    A great experience

    Pros

    • I attended a recent batch which started in September 2016
    • High standards for acceptance was great - meant we could move fast and learn a lot not only from teachers and mentors but also from other participants
    • Great benefit is lots of teachers, each with their own speciality - you get cutting edge advice and material about things the teachers are using themselves in their full-time jobs
    • High quality of mentors and teac...
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  • Eugen yu
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    Graduate • Data Science • Berlin
    Jun 08, 2016
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    DSR to expand your horizont

    I was a participant of a batch in 2016.
    My overall expectation was to become an expert in predictive modeling.
    But there my expectation was not clearly met, because I found out.
    However, the hands on experience offered to me was really useful.
    What we covered was Random Forest, SVM, Deep Learning.
    In the end, there is no free lunch. There is no shortcut to master all the topics.
    But all in all there is a lot of pointers to various directions.
    So the total...

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Data Science Retreat costs around €12,500.

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Where does Data Science Retreat have campuses?

Data Science Retreat has an in-person campus in Berlin.

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