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General Assembly is a technical education provider that teaches students the skills, career advice and networking opportunities needed to make a career change into a tech role, in as little as three months. General Assembly offers part-time and full-time bootcamps and short courses in web and mobile development, product management, data science, and more. The bootcamp experience is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field. Students should expect to build a solid portfolio of real-life projects. Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time and part time bootcamp.
To enroll at General Assembly, applicants should submit an online application to connect with a GA Admissions team member who will work with them to decide if a tech bootcamps is the right fit. The GA Admissions staff are also prepared to speak with applicants about the best tech role for them, learning styles at GA, expected outcomes after the bootcamp, options to finance the bootcamp, career services offered by GA, and more.
To help students land their first job in a tech role, General Assembly students are supported by career coaches from day one. The program is enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.
I took the data science immersive 12-week bootcamp during my work sabbatical in SF. It's a combination of programming statistics, problem solving, and modeling. Class size can vary from 15-22 students for roughly 3 full time instructors, with additional late-night support from teaching assistants. The students had college to 9+ year backgrounds.
Instructors: the SF instructors all have had multiple years of experience in PhD level research, tech startups or data ...
I took the data science immersive 12-week bootcamp during my work sabbatical in SF. It's a combination of programming statistics, problem solving, and modeling. Class size can vary from 15-22 students for roughly 3 full time instructors, with additional late-night support from teaching assistants. The students had college to 9+ year backgrounds.
Instructors: the SF instructors all have had multiple years of experience in PhD level research, tech startups or data science companies. Our instructors lead the bootcamp for the love of teaching, and to take a break from doing startup work. They were excellent! They taught the standard 40 hours of class, and made extra time to assist students outside of class, or grab a quick meal afterwards. They covered the standard materials + because of our class' interest: elective lectures on reinforcement learning, neural networks, image recognition, advanced NLP. They were open to feedback, and tailored the class to ensure that everyone was learning, with some one-on-one sessions as needed. I enjoyed all the instructors, found their lessons to be engaging, and that there was a good cycle of lecture, labs, homework, gameshow-like review and open group discussions. My instructors were Dave and Kiefer, hilarious guys, super-approachable, and always eager to help in and out of the classroom.
Teaching Approach: The course and teacher philosophy is to teach theory and have a real-life hands-on examples for each of the lectures. The main product from taking this course, (or any of the Metis / Galvanize courses) is a extended Capstone project. Day-to-day there's about 4-5 hours of lecture, and the remaining time is interactive labs / in-class projects. Each week there was a "take-home" project to complete that covered the previous week's content. Near week 10 / 11, the take-home projects end, and the focus is on each student developing their own capstone the lectures turn into topics of interest, and there's heavy project Q+A assistance.
Content : This is not primarily a CS 101 course. I would recommend people to study some introduction to python classes (also offered by GA) before taking this immersive, trying to learn CS 101 at the same time as statistical methods can be taxing. Any exposure to data analysis (excel) will be immensely helpful.
The course was only 1 week on python review, and then the class dived into understanding statistical topics and methods, statistical interpretation, and general data-science problem-solving approaches. Data science is a dense subject. I loved the class, it covered more topics than i expected, but I recommend this course as a great core course for statistical analysis, but a "starter" course for advanced machine learning techniques such as neural networks, reinforcement learning, image recognition, and natural language processing. While these were covered in class, each of these topics are so deep that each could have been its own multi-week course.
Pacing: this isnt' GA specific but all bootcamps/immersives: it's a full-time commitment. It's 40 hours of classroom, then take home projects, and then the large capstone project at the second half of the class. It's a LOT of content in a short amount of time. I would also set any students expectation that learning that much for 12 weeks is a lot. Be prepared to take notes/archive/log everything you absorb so you can review the material after the course is over.
Community: From my cohort, and my friends cohort, one of the strongest aspects of GA's immersive is the community. The class diversity was great. My class of 22 was closely knit, still keep in touch, and contributed throughout from our diverse backgrounds in econometrics, finance, bio research, or tech. Anyone can sit through an 12-week online-video course at home, but you would miss out on having 22 other people for study groups, conference groups, projects partners, happy hour buddies, and so much peer-to-peer help. It has been invaluable. I believe the GA brand as well as the screening process has been good at recruiting motivated, collaborative, and eager learners.
Conclusion: Overall I really enjoyed the course, would recommend to anyone interested in expanding their data-analysis toolset beyond the SQL / Excel / python / math/ computer science experience. This course will explain the core concepts for statistical analysis, and set a good path forward for advanced machine learning. General Assembly has some great instructors, and a great community. This class is great at equipping students and enhancing skill sets, to pivot into data analytics, but not going to be a silver bullet to immediately get a job as a experienced data scientist. The content is too deep and complex for that
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How much does General Assembly cost?
General Assembly costs around $16,450. On the lower end, some General Assembly courses like Visual Design (Short Course) cost $3,500.
What courses does General Assembly teach?
General Assembly offers courses like 1. Data Science Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Full Time), 2. Software Engineering Bootcamp (Part Time), 3. User Experience Design Bootcamp (Full Time) and 13 more.
Where does General Assembly have campuses?
General Assembly has in-person campuses in London, New York City, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney. General Assembly also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is General Assembly worth it?
The data says yes! General Assembly reports a 84% graduation rate, and 95% of General Assembly alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2021, General Assembly reported a 82% graduation rate, a median salary of , and N/A of General Assembly alumni are employed.
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