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Now you can upgrade yourself with Accelerated Data Science Teaching Kit for Educators

Data science is one of the most sought disciplines in the field of technology due to the rapid growth of data in terms of volume, complexity and velocity. The surging demand of data scientists prompted Nvidia Deep Learning Institute to unveil Accelerated Data Science Teaching Kit for trainers.
The first version of Accelerated Data Science Teaching Kit for qualified trainers was released by NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute on February 2021 to develop the best data science solutions that meets the increased demand for data skillsets.
The kit was co-developed by Polo Chau of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Xishuang Dong from Prairie View A and M University. 
In report published by NVIDIA, Chau stated that: “Data Science unlocks the immense potential of data in solving societal challenges and large-scale complex problems across virtually every domain, from business, technology, science and engineering to healthcare, government and many more.”
The free teaching content will cover essential and cutting-edge topics in data collection and preprocessing, accelerated data science with data visualization, RAPIDS, graph analytics and GPU-accelerated machine learning.
The first version of Accelerated Data Science Teaching Kit module includes: Introduction to Data Science and RAPIDS, Data Collection and Pre-processing, Data Ethics and Bias in Data Sets, Data Integration and Analytics, Data Visualization and Distributed Computing with Hadoop, Hive, Spark and RAPIDS.
Content delivery will be through lecture notes, slides, quiz/ exam problem sets and hands-on labs. The tech company plans to include video content in future releases. 

Free Online Data Science Programs

Due to increased demand for data science, some institutions have decided to offer free online data science courses. 
The following institutions offer free learning material for data science: John Hopkins University in collaboration with Coursera (Data Science Crash Course), Alison (Data Science (Revised), Microsoft (EdX) (Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials), Dataquest (Learn Data Science), Harvard (Data Science) and University of Michigan with collaboration with Coursera (Introduction to Data Science with Python).

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