How The Gradient Boost works

As you go through the signup process we will ask you questions to better understand you, how you would like to pay our fee and to understand when and how to reach out to you to explain how The Gradient Boost works, get a deeper understanding of your goals and aspirations and give you an opportunity to ask any questions to help you make a more informed decision.

Once classes commence you will have access to two live weekly mentorship sessions with Data Scientists from across Africa. Your mentors will walk you through some of the issues you are struggling with and explain concepts in our curriculum to you in a more practical way to ensure understanding. These tutorials are recorded and shared with you, giving you a lifetime of videos that you can always go back to in order to revise things you may have forgotten.

We have workshops every weekend, the majority of which are only open to our registered students. These workshops are led by either your workshop mentor (a Data Scientist), or guest Data Scientists, recruiters and other specialists from around the world to either give you a practical workshop on a useful skill or tool that isn't included in the core curriculum (e.g Tableau or Web Scraping) or to walk you through a case study or interview questions to expect in a Data Science interview.

Upon successful completion of our course you will receive a digitally shareable certificate signed off by atleast 4 Data Scientists based on your assignments and project submission. Through our partnership with Diwala the certificate is backed by the blockchain.

We help ensure that you are keeping up with your course progress. Since our Introduction to Data Science course is self-paced you will have an accountability partner to help you define a weekly study schedule and to ensure that you are not falling behind. You will also a weekly catchup call to understand any major concerns you have about the course and your progress in general.

As part of the curriculum, we will help you start building up your data science portfolio with projects and case studies tailored to your interests. This will help showcase your skills to potential employers.

Through our Slack channel you will be able to interact with other learners and mentors to not only keep you motivated and learning but to create networking opportunities.