Aug 26, 2020 | SAN DIEGO, California

Expanded partnership with the College of Arkansas brings Vantage into the classroom for school and college students from educational establishments around the globe

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud knowledge and analytics firm, as we speak introduced a major enlargement of the Teradata College for Teachers program, guaranteeing that college students trying to construct careers within the rising huge knowledge and analytics market are absolutely ready and already conversant in the main knowledge analytics platform, Teradata Vantage.

 

The Teradata College for Teachers program, which for twenty years has supplied entry to Teradata know-how and assets for colleges who decide into the curriculum, is now providing complimentary technical schooling for anybody within the educational neighborhood – no matter their affiliation with Teradata. Additionally expanded is the coursework supplied from Teradata, which now contains greater than 145 hours of on-line technical coaching. These on-demand web-based programs, which might be taken free of charge as a part of any college syllabus, embrace lab simulations and certification packages meant to show each fundamental and superior abilities in SQL, Machine Studying, Automation and extra. Well-liked programs embrace Teradata SQL, Massive Knowledge Ideas, Breaking the Language Barrier: When to Use Python, R and SQL, and Introduction to Knowledge Science Course of.

 

Along with this unprecedented entry to technical coaching, Teradata can also be saying an expanded partnership with the College of Arkansas to permit college students and college from any college, worldwide, to achieve hands-on expertise with Teradata Vantage.

 

“Whereas the decades-long partnership between Teradata and the College of Arkansas has all the time centered on getting ready college students for careers in huge knowledge, the assets we at the moment are capable of present are actually distinctive for a college setting,” mentioned Dr. Ron Freeze on the College of Arkansas. “We satisfaction ourselves on turning out college students that aren’t solely educated within the concept of information and analytics, however who can even hit the bottom working with real-world expertise and perception. Providing this enviable educational alternative to school and college students from different faculties and universities is our pleasure.”

 

Teradata just lately donated a brand new, state-of-the-art Vantage platform to the College of Arkansas, who agreed to supply direct, hosted entry to the platform for tens of 1000’s of scholars from a whole bunch of faculties and universities. That is an enlargement of the present Teradata College for Teachers program, whose most lively individuals hail from all kinds of faculties worldwide, from Duke College and Oklahoma State College, to NIDA in Thailand.

 

“Teradata’s clients are a number of the largest, most visionary firms on the planet they usually run their companies on knowledge. Almost all of them want extra knowledge scientists and analytics specialists, so we’re doing our half to make an schooling in knowledge and analytics simply accessible,” mentioned Susan Baskin, Director of International Buyer Training and Teradata College for Teachers. “Our long-term partnership with the College of Arkansas is important to that schooling as a result of it gives the real-world expertise that college students want and corporations worth. When a graduate can lean on their sensible experiences of utilizing Vantage within the classroom – and showcase their certification to show it – it heightens their market attraction whereas additionally making it simpler for our clients to rent the certified expertise they want.”

 

To enhance the sensible expertise of this system, Teradata additionally companions with the College of Arkansas to supply curated and anonymized knowledge units from firms corresponding to Sam’s Membership and Dillard’s. Obtainable free of charge — courtesy of robust relationships cultivated by the College of Arkansas — college students entry, work with, and discover insights utilizing these real-world, large knowledge units within the Teradata Vantage platform, guaranteeing that their educational expertise can simply translate to a real-world setting.

 
About College of Arkansas

The College of Arkansas gives an internationally aggressive schooling for undergraduate and graduate college students in additional than 200 educational packages. The college contributes new data, financial improvement, fundamental and utilized analysis, and inventive exercise whereas additionally offering service to educational {and professional} disciplines. The Carnegie Basis classifies the College of Arkansas amongst fewer than 2.7 % of universities in America which have the best degree of analysis exercise. U.S. Information & World Report ranks the College of Arkansas amongst its high American public analysis universities. Based in 1871, the College of Arkansas includes 10 faculties and colleges and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes private consideration and shut mentoring