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?
Students describe their experience in The Data Mine like having an internship during the academic year– it is experiential learning at its best using project-based work and mentorship along the way. Students work with real-world data and real-world challenges ultimately helping them build the skills they need to be successful in their future careers. Learn more about the student experience (video): Student Experience in The Data Mine
The participating corporate partner determines how they prefer to share data with the students: Hosting data at Purdue University on Anvil (secure, high computing cluster), guest accounts via company online environment, or sending company laptops
Learn more about The Data Mine’s technical resources: The Examples Book – Data Usage
$20,000 per academic year per project: 5-10 students including students from all academic levels and backgrounds
More details about legal and funding: The Examples Book – Legal
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