Corporate Partners at The Data Mine
The Data Mine welcomes corporate partners to join us advancing data science through collaboration, education and research. We strive to build a welcoming environment to execute our mission – Data Science for All. Our Corporate Partners are a vital part of this.
There isn’t any perfect way to define a data science project for The Data Mine. A project with The Data Mine should be designed to challenge the students and help them learn – it is all about their building experience with analytics, familiarity with your company and ways of working.
The best Data Mine projects have these two elements:
- Data intensive project: We seek projects with large data sets (an Excel spreadsheet doesn’t count).
- Committed mentoring: It is important to have a corporate employee who can meet and mentor the students. Ideally, they know the data students will be working with and are invested in student development.
Corporate Partner Benefits
- Talent Access: Students describe their experience in The Data Mine like having an internship during the school year. Work with highly motivated students from diverse backgrounds as a training ground to recruit for internships and full time employment opportunities.
- Build Company Recognition: The competition for data-minded talent is fierce. Set yourself apart from the big tech companies and build positive working relationships with students outside of the typically recruitment strategies.
- Test Proof-of-Concept Projects: Experiment ideas with innovative students and see what they can create before putting tremendous internal company resources toward the data science project.
- Completing Value Add Projects: Think about projects that haven’t made the priority list… in The Data Mine we say ‘stuck in the backlog’. What are those back-burner projects that are known to add value and could benefit from more resources like time and talent?
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