Employers Are Having a Hard Time Finding Experienced Candidates
Learn Advanced Data Science & Machine Learning Skills
[ Batch 19 and 20 ]
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About The Retreat
99% Job Placement Rate
86% of our graduates got a job within 3 months of completion
Just some of the fine companies our graduates have gone on to work at
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“The learning rate is tremendous. This program has pushed me to my limit and beyond”Toavina Andriamanerasoa (batch 08)
Senior Data Scientist at New Yorker -
“I got three solid offers after the training”Diego Amicabile
Chief Lead Software Engineer at Infinitec Solutions -
“Exposure to data scientists who are at the highest level in their field. That has gone beyond expectation.”Stephan (batch 03)
Company Founder Based on Portfolio Project
Experience Makes
You Stand Out
Graduates: Don’t have any solid information of what the field is like, few modules in college, hard to get relevant experience.
Employers: Find it very difficult to find people with relevant experience.
We Help Our Participants Bridge the Gap
What's missing is proof of real-world, hands-on experience. Through close mentorship, our participants build portfolio projects to gain experience and show off their skills.
Small Classes Sizes
and Vetted Peers
Small class sizes, give you the chance to really work closely with your mentors and benefit directly from their experience and expertise. Because everyone is at the skill level (interview acceptance rate: 10%) you also get to learn a lot from your peers
Previous GraduatesBattle-Tested Materials
and Methods
We know what works, and what doesn’t, from over 18 successful batches. Our AI retreat in Berlin is the market leader for Europe. Our graduates leave our program with the real-world skills needed to land their dream job or start their next big venture.
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Real-world Expert
Mentorship and Teachers
We source the very best experts and teachers with a track record in Data Science and Machine Learning. Every one of our instructors is considered world-class and only teaches the topic they have mastered.
Meet Our TeachersOur past batches of students
Latest Student Projects
Virtual AI Trainer
AI to Detect Tiredness
Creation of a Portfolio Project that is a Proof-of-concept or a working product.
- You team up and discuss ideas for your portfolio project
- All participants have the opportunity to engage in a project work.
- Executing a substancial data science project shows your skills.
Why Data Science Retreat?
Jose, our Founder, talks about the philosophy behind the creation of Data Science Retreat (Berlin) and AI Deep Dive (Toronto) and what gaps he sees in the AI Industry.
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Our Teachers and Mentors
Dr. Marek Gagolewski
Professor atthe Polish Academy of Sciences
and Warsaw University of Technology
The author of best-selling books on Python and R programming and many R packages, including the famous stringi package. Marek holds a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in data aggregation, fusion, and mining, as well as computational statistics and uncertainty modeling.
Jakub Cieslik
Senior Data Scientistat The New Yorker
Jakub holds a masters degree in biomedical signal processing and has previously worked in the Fintech sector. He is passionate about practical hands-on deep learning as well as Python development and bringing deep learning into production systems.
Qingchen Wang
Data Scientistand Kaggle Grandmaster
Qingchen is an award-winning data scientist with expertise in machine learning & artificial intelligence. One of only 87 grandmasters (as of mid-2017) on the Kaggle data science competition platform (top rank of 14th out of 52,000+ active competitors on Kaggle), and he also have significant experience in software engineering (C++, Java, Python).
Daniel Nouri
Expert Software Engineerat Natural Vision
Through his company Natural Vision, he’s been successfully applying deep learning to problems in bioacoustics, computer vision, and text mining. He’s the designer and coauthor of skorch, A scikit-learn compatible neural network library that wraps pytorch.
Dr. José Quesada
Founder ofDSR and AI Deep Dive
Jose has mentored over 200 machine learning portfolio projects. Some of which have resulted in startups, while others ended up being non-profits with significant social impact. He did his PhD work at UC Boulder and then Carnegie Mellon. He opened offices in Berlin, San Francisco and now in Toronto.
Gilberto Titericz
Lead Data Scientistat Ople
A true Machine Learning Expert, Gilberto holds a USA O-1 Visa. For over 2 years, he has been ranked #1 out of 78,200 active data scientists at Kaggle. Gilberto is a 17x Prize Winner as well as being 33x Top 1% placed in competitions. He is currently a Lead Data Scientist at Ople (Brazil) where he builds AI to automate Data Science workflow.
Kelvin Lwin
AI Architectat Iluvatar CoreX
He spent seven years teaching 4,500 students across 55 classes, while redesigning the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum. He is currently designing curricula at NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) to democratize access to the latest technologies across many disciplines, industries, and geographies. Kelvin helped DLI reach over 100K developers worldwide, directly and in collaboration with Udacity and Coursera/Deeplearning.ai.
Our fees are
€10 000We require a $1,000 deposit once your application has been accepted. We offer flexible payment plans and also bursaries to partially fund tuitions.
Learn MoreGermany
Berlin
Eislebenerstr. 4 (10789)
Batch 20: 23 September - 17 December 2019
Financing Options
Scholarship Options
Canada
Toronto
207 Queens Quay West (M5J 1A7)
Batch 1: 19 Aug - 14 Nov 2019 Full
Batch 2: 16 Sep - 15 Dec 2019