Divergence Academy

Trying to enter the Data Science world with a Master's degree and a few online courses is not quite enough, as it cannot enable a new graduate to think like a domain expert who could help formulate the right questions. Even with the right questions, students like me have to demonstrate the ability to apply the right concept to solve the problem. Divergence Academy's Data Science 60 hr course bridges the gap that students seem to have, between the generic exposure of concepts and the current industry standards and expectations.

This Data Science course spearheaded by Vish and Scott ticked a lot of boxes for me unlike the other data science courses available online. The telling difference was in the way the instructors helped me get my foundations right and gave me the ability to analyze the problems in an effective way. A lot of work went into compiling the course work that is relevant to the current industry standards and the assignments helped me dwell deep into the concepts. I was introduced to some pretty cool data science tools that are being used by the top technology companies. I would recommend this course for anyone looking to get their feet wet in the data science/Machine Learning world.

As an aspiring data scientist and a recent graduate, I had decided to complete numerous data science courses online. I presumed I was quite proficient at data science and even marketed myself to recruiters as one. I could not have been more wrong. Data science is not something which can be learned by conventional means. It needs a certain level of business acumen and several hours of guided teaching. Online courses which claim to teach you data science within a few hours is not even close to enough. Divergence Academy satisfied all my shortcomings. It provided me with the opportunity to learn from and interact with some of the best-established data scientists. I was able to land my first data science job before the course concluded. I would strongly recommend this course to people who are extremely keen on becoming data scientists and are ready to put in the work!

I have had the amazing experience and opportunity to take both the Data Science Part-Time course and the Data Science Immersive. There are almost too many great things to say about both but I will try to be brief. Specifically with the Immersive course if I could describe it with one word it would be "hands-on" and I probably need one more word and that would be "caring". Sravan Ankaraju (founder) and Beth (advisor) have done an outstanding job making this course top notch.
Firstly all of the instructors for each module either held at least one if not more than one graduate degree or had 3-4 years industry experience. The hands on part came in as we had daily scrums in the morning to go over what we learned and figure out how to tweak the course if needed. There were also a few speakers that came in from either the DS industry or from a related industry. Divergence Academy also has a huge presence in the Dallas tech community and is also next the Addison Treehouse (co-working space, start-up incubator), thus they hold several tech meet-ups and even more are accessible at the Treehouse. This definitely provides plenty of opportunities for networking and if someone is new to the tech industry then they are great for  getting abreast of the market.
The coursework is intense and does a great job of covering the major topics and algorithms in data science. The result being a can now confidently work my way through the data science process. If you decide to take this course definitely take the pre-coursework material or at least get a good feel for python. Also be prepared for the time commitment not only in class but possibly for your lifestyle. You definitely will not want to miss any classes unless you have to as there is a lot covered each day.
The only improvements I would suggest would be incorporating in a three to five day break. Maybe due to my thirst for knowledge, I would even consider extending some modules or topics covered. Specifically I would have enjoyed doing a bit more in Neo4j.
Lastly they also do a great job of getting you prepared to go out into the workforce. My LinkedIn, resume, and github accounts are outstanding. The aforementioned coupled with the job seeking tactics taught should have me with a new data science job in 90 days or less for sure. If you are considering taking either the weekend or immersive course feel free to contact the academy and they can put you in touch with me. I am happy to share my experience and some of the finer details with you. Cheers!

I really enjoyed this course. I liked the in-class demos/examples to help remember the material.  It was a nice reward for working hard throughout the course. I would recommend this course to those looking into Data Science.

The instructors bring enthusiasm and experience to every lecture that they give. They  are very approachable and understanding, and always keep an open line of communication with their students.

I was part of the 17th cohort for the Data Science Part-Time / 60-Hour Weekend course at Divergence Academy.  As an aspiring data science professional, I am so glad that I took this course under the tutelage of Scott Love and Vish Puttagunta.  Both Scott and Vish taught the course material in a fashion that emphasized less on theory and more on practice, which satisfies the expectations of industry.  I especially liked how Vish made linear and logistic regression, neural networks, and Naive Bayes relatable, by conceptualizing and teaching these supervised machine learning techniques in a human and comprehensible fashion.  Scott and Vish also shared their insights of the industry's expectations towards data scientists and stressed the art of communicating data findings to domain experts, external customers, and management in their specific language.  Both instructors always sustained my attention throughout each five-hour course day, unlike online data science courses where I can easily daydream while watching 15 to 20-minute lecture videos.  The Jupyter Notebooks provided in this course are full of valuable Python code to reference for data science projects.  My classmates and I also got our hands dirty with the latest tools like Deep Cognition and Spark.  The only improvements that I would incorporate into this class is to commit some time to web scraping, regularization of regression with lasso and ridge regression, and time-series analysis.

Took the 6 week-end Datascience course at Divergence Academy. Vish Puttagunta (Instructor) is one of the best instructor in dfw area and his approach & the curriculum he built towards this course is perfect. The course is not just theory or a bunch of slides its completely hands-on course every week where I got to know about building  models in Python Pandas, Spark, Scala, Statistical modelling & deep learning techniques at a scale with cutting edge cloud tools like google collab & Microsoft Azure. Highly recommended course for someone who is looking into a full time career in DataScience or if they want to bring the value to company by communicating with c level executives and build a data science center of excellency team.