How YouTube is Democratizing Data Science Education?
Hemanand Vadivel (~hemanand) |
Description:
Gone are the days when you needed to be privileged to have access to elite universities to get a quality education. With advancements in internet infrastructure and the rise of educational influencers, one platform that is truly transforming the landscape of education is 'YouTube.'
Today, one can sit in a far corner village of Rajasthan and access Stanford machine learning lectures on YouTube. All you need is a stable internet connection, a laptop, and a will to learn. YouTube has amazing content for data science education today, all for free. Starting from StatQuest for statistics, Codebasics and Krish Naik's channel for ML, and data analytics tutorials to 3b1b for pure math. All these channels have amazed thousands of followers, becoming the trusted platforms to learn data science.
Topic Overview
- With the advent of the internet, how has the education landscape transformed?
- What does YouTube offer for Data Science education?
- Popular/trusted channels if you are new to Data Science or Data Analytics
- The social impact of democratizing education
- Challenges with YouTube learning
- Thoughts on the future evolution
Prerequisites:
This talk will work for participants at all levels of technical knowledge. However, it would be good to have an idea of the following:
- YouTube as a platform
- Data Science/data analytics as a branch of study
Video URL:
https://youtu.be/qhprazYCQxk
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Speaker Info:
Hemanand Vadivel is a mechanical engineer who transformed into a data analytics manager at Edgewell Personal Care in Europe, a publicly listed company based in the USA. He made this transition through self-learning, especially by leveraging the free tutorials on YouTube. 'Codebasics' is one of the channels from which he learned, and interestingly, he has now become the co-founder of Codebasics through his contributions to the learning community, and runs the YouTube channel along with its founder, Dhaval Patel. Hemanand also has expertise in conducting corporate training and public meetups/workshops.