I was introduced to data science and big data when I worked for a telecommunications company doing product management for data center and cloud computing services. My experience in handling big data sparked my curiosity to learn data science. As a spectator at the other side of the fence, I felt excited at how data analysts are able to generate insights out of seemingly random data. In my capstone project, I used the data infrastructure system I’m familiar with to create a group recommender system using the million song dataset. We used the humongous dataset, trained it using dozens and dozens of Amazon Web Services clusters so that it could recommend a playlist of songs for groups of listeners.
NYC Data Science Academy’s mission is to provide accelerated data science training programs that prepare people for employment as data science professionals and to offer continuing education courses for professional development.
