BCG Data Science & Advanced Analytics Virtual Experience Program

Key Takeaways

welcome back to another episode of the data science virtual internship video series on this channel so ever since the last episode the company offering these virtual internships was provided by inside sherpa and ever since the company has been rebranded into what is known as forage and their website is accessible from the forage.com and today we're going to be taking a look at the data science and advanced analytics virtual experience program so without further ado let's get started so this program will allow you the opportunity to get a feel of what it's like to work at bct and the great thing about this is that the program is free what is worth noting is that this virtual program will take you approximately six to seven hours to complete and in doing so you will get practical skills and experience from bcg and so these are the reasons why you should be taking this virtual experience program and through this program you will be learning how data science technology and design digital ventures and business purposes are being used at the bcg company so let's take a look further so this is an introductory video by amber greywall the global talent managing director at bcg and she will be introducing this virtual experience program and as mentioned already you'll be getting experience at how bct is employing data science and analytics and the great thing is that you'll be obtaining a digital batch that you could share and as already mentioned you could complete this program at any time that you are free and in doing so you will be learning whether a career in data science and data analytics is for you or not so let's have a look at the courses provided here so the first is business understanding and problem framing how to quickly understand the business context so some of the practical skills that you will be gaining include business understanding problem structuring brainstorming professional communication and so the answers that you provide in this module will be compared to a real world model solution created by the bct team and so this is very important because at the beginning of any data science or a data analytics project you have to first understand the business problem and this is the first step in the data science life cycle and then also figuring out what problems to be addressed and in the second module you'll be learning about exploratory data analysis and data cleaning and this will help you to understand the business through data and some of the practical skills that you'll be gaining include programming and exploratory data analysis and so once you have already understood the problem that you want to address then you want to get a high level overview of your data and then you could do this by performing an eda so this allows you a high level understanding of your data so you'll be performing some descriptive statistics and also visualizing the distribution of the data points by means of various types of data visualization the third module will be feature engineering so here you'll be uncovering signals within data practical skills that you'll be gaining include business understanding programming and also creativity so this is also very important because you also have to combine features in your data analytics workflow and this will provide you with the understanding of doing so number four modeling and evaluation modeling the problem and evaluating your model practical skills include mathematical modeling model evaluation and programming and so this is into the part of model building and also evaluating the prediction performance out of your machine learning models module 5 insights and recommendation so here you'll be putting it all together and practical skills that you'll be gaining include synthesis client communication model interpretation so to wrap it up this module will allow you to interpret the model and provide recommendations or the next course of action to be taken based on the data and that's all and then you will take approximately six to seven hours to complete this virtual program and so i'll be providing you the links to this data science and advanced analytics virtual program from bcg via the forage platform and if you're finding value in this video please give it a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't yet done so hit on the notification bell in order to be notified of the next video and as always the best way to learn data science is to do data science and please enjoy the journey thank you for watching please like subscribe and share and i'll see you in the next one but in the meantime please check out these videos