Mark Labbe, news writer for SearchEnterpriseAI and SearchBusinessAnalytics says, Internal data science training programs have helped vendors when colleges and universities have failed. Training is helping to fix the data scientist shortage.
The data scientist shortage, caused partially because AI and
analytics technologies are constantly changing, and partially because
colleges and universities can't keep up with the demand for data science education, is well-documented, and has been a problem for years.
To attack that shortage,
data science vendors are developing internal and external training
programs that provide education to their own employees and to their
clients' employees.
Internal training programs
Fusemachines, Inc., a New York-based startup founded in 2013,
provides AI experts, such as developers, engineers and programmers, to
companies looking to build or refine their own AI systems.
Clients request all sorts of work, but right now, recommendation engines for retailers are in particularly high demand, said Steve Rennie, director of research at Fusemachines...
One customer, a United Kingdom-based statistics company, has been
working with Cloudera on a project to onboard more statisticians,
Brandwein said...
The New York-based company works with new graduates as well as more seasoned employees. Most clients are almost ready for the modern workforce,
but are not quite there yet. New graduates might have a Ph.D. in
mathematics, but no experience in machine learning. Older employees,
meanwhile, might have much experience with machine learning, but not
with using some of the newer machine learning tools.
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Source: TechTarget