
Turn ODSC into a kickstart bootcamp with our 3 – 4 day pass
Avail free access to on-demand pre-bootcamp training.

Join Pre-Bootcamp Training
Start learning in the summer with the very fundamentals of data science, followed by a live training and hackathon to build confidence, and win prizes.

Learn Applied Skills at the Kickstart Bootcamp
Join the 3- 4 day live kickstart-bootcamp and learn the languages, algorithms, and tools from some of the leading data scientists in the world

Career Support
Network with attendees from 1,600+ companies and meet over 40 companies hiring directly at ODSC, career days, webinars, resume reviews and more

Get Certified
Get a certification of completion upon finishing 3 – 4 days of instruction
Registration
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Kick-start your career in data science, from beginner to advanced in just 3 days. Get the skills you need, taught by world-renowned experts
ODSC Kickstart Bootcamp is the best way to gain in-demand data science skills in the shortest time with minimum investment. Starting in the winter, the on-demand pre-Bootcamp Training & the Learning Hackathon will provide the right preparation and confidence to put your practice to work in your learning path.
It’s truly an immersive experience. Over almost a week, you will access an expanse of industry focused data science topics on a scale not offered elsewhere. Uniquely, you will also get invaluable insights by networking and connecting with hundreds of data science attendees, world renowned instructors, industry experts, and dozens of top companies seeking the next wave of talent.
Past Specialization Tracks
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Our kickstart bootcamp is fully customizable, you can attend the sessions you want live and on-demand after our conference. Check all available training here – Training Page.
West Kickstart Bootcamp Overview
Begin, this winter, with a pre-bootcamp on-demand training to build confidence in the core fundamentals of data science, and steadily progress through the bootcamp week with our hands-on training and expert-led sessions and projects. Refer to the timeline below.
Pre-Bootcamp On-demand Training
Get started in your learning track with free access to introductory concepts with short, to-the-point and industry driven on-demand courses.
- Programming with Data: Python – by Daniel Gerlanc, Enplus Advisors (Duration: ~3 hrs)
- Statistics for Data Science – by Andrew Zirm, PhD, Greenhouse Software (Duration: ~3 hrs)
Schedule: Self-paced
Note: only accessible to 3-Day and 4-Day Bootcamp registrants.
Bootcamp Day 1 - Beginner Level SEssions (November 15th)
Live sessions include but are not limited to ones below. Check full half-day and full-day training program at the Training Page.
- Mathematics for Data Science
- Statistics for Data Science
- Introduction to Python Programming with Pandas
- Introduction to Natural Language Processing
- SQL for Data Science
- Introduction to Bayesian Modelling
- Recommendation Systems Fundamentals
- Introduction To Face Processing With Computer Vision
Bootcamp Day 2 & 3 - Beginner to Intermediate Level (November 16th - 17th)
Live sessions include but are not limited to ones below. Check full half-day and full-day training program at the Training Page.
- Introductory to Intermediate Machine Learning with scikit-learn
- Advanced Machine Learning with scikit-learn: Pipelines, Evaluation Metrics, Imbalanced Classification
- Machine Learning in R: Penalized Regression, Boosted Trees and build ML pipelines
- Machine Learning in R: Forecasting Time Series Data and ML in production with Plumber, Docker
- Machine Learning for Trading
- Interpreting and Explaining XGBoost Models
- Bayesian Data Science: Probabilistic Programming
- Deep Learning with TensorFlow and PyTorch
Bootcamp Day 4 - Intermediate to Advanced Level (November 18th)
Live sessions include but are not limited to ones below. Check full half-day and full-day training program at the Training Page.
- Variational Auto-Encoders for Customer Insight
- Learning and Mining Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Data
- From Numbers to Narrative: Turning Raw Data into Compelling Stories with Impact
- How To Build And Test A Trading Strategy Using ML
- State-of-the-art NLP Made Easy with AdaptNLP
- Building an Industry Classifier With The Latest Scraping, NLP and Deployment Tools
- Sequence Modelling with Deep Learning
- Image Detection as a Service: Use APIs and Deep Learning to Support Products
Certificate of Completion & More
- Obtain an ODSC Certification of Completion
- Get access to all ODSC West 2020 recorded sessions
- Get access to over 100+ additional recorded sessions from prior ODSC events, including ODSC East and ODSC Europe
What You’ll Learn
Bootcamp Experience
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