Aug 26, 2020 | SAN DIEGO, California

Expanded partnership with the College of Arkansas brings Vantage into the classroom for school and college students from tutorial establishments world wide

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud information and analytics firm, at the moment introduced a big growth of the Teradata College for Teachers program, guaranteeing that college students trying to construct careers within the rising large information and analytics market are totally ready and already acquainted with the main information analytics platform, Teradata Vantage.

 

The Teradata College for Teachers program, which for twenty years has supplied entry to Teradata expertise and assets for colleges who choose into the curriculum, is now providing complimentary technical training for anybody within the tutorial group – 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 will be taken without spending a dime as a part of any college syllabus, embody lab simulations and certification applications meant to show each primary and superior abilities in SQL, Machine Studying, Automation and extra. Standard programs embody Teradata SQL, Huge 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 school from any college, worldwide, to realize hands-on expertise with Teradata Vantage.

 

“Whereas the decades-long partnership between Teradata and the College of Arkansas has all the time targeted on getting ready college students for careers in large information, the assets we are actually in a position to present are actually distinctive for a college setting,” stated Dr. Ron Freeze on the College of Arkansas. “We pleasure ourselves on turning out college students that aren’t solely educated within the concept of knowledge and analytics, however who may also hit the bottom working with real-world expertise and perception. Providing this enviable tutorial alternative to school and college students from different schools 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 offer direct, hosted entry to the platform for tens of 1000’s of scholars from lots of of faculties and universities. That is an growth 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 earth and so they run their companies on information. Almost all of them want extra information scientists and analytics specialists, so we’re doing our half to make an training in information and analytics simply accessible,” stated Susan Baskin, Director of International Buyer Schooling and Teradata College for Teachers. “Our long-term partnership with the College of Arkansas is important to that training as a result of it offers the real-world expertise that college students want and firms 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 reinforce the sensible expertise of this system, Teradata additionally companions with the College of Arkansas to offer curated and anonymized information units from firms reminiscent of Sam’s Membership and Dillard’s. Out there without spending a dime — courtesy of sturdy relationships cultivated by the College of Arkansas — college students entry, work with, and discover insights utilizing these real-world, large information units within the Teradata Vantage platform, guaranteeing that their tutorial expertise can simply translate to a real-world setting.

 

About College of Arkansas

The College of Arkansas offers an internationally aggressive training for undergraduate and graduate college students in additional than 200 tutorial applications. The college contributes new data, financial improvement, primary and utilized analysis, and inventive exercise whereas additionally offering service to tutorial {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 schools and colleges and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes private consideration and shut mentoring