<p>DataCamp launched our giveaway initiative this spring to provide quality data science education at no cost to disadvantaged communities around the world. We hoped it would open up new opportunities for those aspiring to upskill and find better-paying jobs amidst a pandemic. One of our partners in this initiative is Data Science Nigeria. They’re leveraging the depth of DataCamp’s curriculum to build exciting data projects for the benefit of all Nigerians.</p>
<h2 id="about-data-science-nigeria">About Data Science Nigeria</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/">Data Science Nigeria</a> (DSN) is an artificial intelligence nonprofit with a mission to train, mentor, and inspire Nigerian students to build skills in advanced analytics and data science. “We love DataCamp&#39;s mission of democratizing data science education,” says Ezekiel Ogundepo, a data scientist at DSN. “It is in line with our vision at Data Science Nigeria to build a world-class artificial intelligence knowledge, research, and innovation ecosystem that delivers high impact and transformational research, business use applications, AI-first start-ups, employability, and social good use cases. In 10 years, we aim to train a million AI talents, and we hope Nigeria will become one of the top-10 global AI talent/knowledge destinations with a 20% GDP multiplier impact. That’s why we gave licenses to our staff, our AI+ Community members, and to some to outstanding participants in DSN Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp 2020.”</p>
<p>This is an extremely ambitious goal, but one that can be achieved with the proper training. “Our staff and our various communities are equipping themselves by taking various courses in data science and machine learning at DataCamp. I learn <a href="https://datacamp.com/tracks/r-programming">R programming</a> on DataCamp,” said Ezekiel.</p>
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<h2 id="using-datacamp-for-maximum-efficiency">Using DataCamp for maximum efficiency</h2>
<p>The amount of training their employees, volunteers, and students are undertaking on DataCamp backs up how serious the organization is about raising Nigeria’s profile in the global data science community. In just four short months, their members and employees have logged an extraordinary 3,400 hours of learning. That’s over 450 courses completed and over 1,000,000+ XP earned.</p>
<p>What are the reasons for this impressive engagement? “The hands-on experience, the simplified video contents, and the instructors are just awesome,” said Jeremiah Nwaneri, a DSN learner and intern at KPMG. “It&#39;s very engaging. You just want to keep learning once you start with DataCamp. The DataCamp course instructors are great inspirers and motivators. My enthusiasm to learn has greatly skyrocketed.”</p>
<p>Toluwani Adegoke, a student at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, agrees: “I find it enjoyable. Working on DataCamp projects helped me improve my CV and my portfolio.” What’s keeping their members motivated and learning is DataCamp’s wide variety of courses and activities that appeal to different learning styles. DSN learners regularly cited our guided and unguided <a href="https://www.datacamp.com/projects">projects</a>, <a href="http://datacamp.com/signal">Signal assessments</a>, and <a href="http://datacamp.com/mobile">mobile app</a> experience as their favorite features.</p>
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<p>For Peter Onuoha, a data analyst at DSN, DataCamp’s core functionality provides all the tools you need to learn and practice right there in the courses, in your web browser. “The integration of a developer environment into their learning site is phenomenal. I don&#39;t have to be shuttling from Jupyter notebook to the instructional videos, as everything is on the website,” he said.</p>
<p>Learning at home is a priority during COVID-19, and we aim to provide the best learning experience to build data skills online. DSN learners have found that their gains from using DataCamp are impressive even when compared with the results of traditional in-person education. “It is as if there is no difference between DataCamp and in-person education,” said Julius Odunga. “Each time I made a mistake in my code, DataCamp has a way of telling me where exactly I got it wrong.”</p>
<p>“DataCamp gives the feeling of being personally lectured by a world-class tutor,” said Fortune Uwha. Our platform gives her the tools to assess, learn, and practice her data science skills—and also to apply them in the real world.</p>
<p>According to Ezekiel, “Evidence from the experience gathered so far shows that there is a significant difference (P-value &lt; 0.05) that DataCamp is more effective when compared with in-person computer science education.”</p>
<h2 id="real-learning-real-results">Real learning, real results</h2>
<p>Many DSN learners reported that DataCamp helped them place higher in coding competitions, achieve accolades and build confidence, and stand out on their resumes. Fortune, a DSN learner currently looking for work, thanks DataCamp for her recent success: “With the skills gained from taking various courses in the Machine Learning Fundamentals with Python track, I placed among the 10th percentile in a Data Science Nigeria Hackathon hosted on Kaggle.”</p>
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<p>But free access to DataCamp for a full year means a lot more than amassing medals and trophies. Many DSN learners report that the skills they acquired on DataCamp have helped them land internships, paying jobs, and even improve their current work situation. Fortune confirms, “Learning on DataCamp has helped me keep my programming skills up to date. It helps my brain stay sharp and in the business. This has helped me land a few freelance projects.”</p>
<p>DataCamp’s learn-by-doing methodology has helped many learners to apply and share their knowledge. Emmanuel Onwuegbusi used the natural language processing skills he learned on DataCamp <a href="https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/build-an-ocr-and-summarize-webapp-using-pytesseract-gensim-and-django-13d0ff911d93">to build</a> an <a href="https://emmamichael.pythonanywhere.com/">OCR system</a> that extracts text from images and uses the GENSIM package to summarize the OCRed text. For Ezekiel, one of DSN’s resident data scientists, the ongoing health crisis was the most pressing application. “I took DataCamp&#39;s skill track in <a href="https://datacamp.com/courses/time-series-analysis-in-r">Time Series with R</a>, and I was able to manipulate various COVID-19 time series data,” he said. “In addition, we just published <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106424">an article</a> in Data in Brief Journal about Nigerian economics and healthcare during the pandemic, using skills acquired on DataCamp.”</p>
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<p>DSN members are bringing their skills to bear in the academic community, but they are also hard at work visualizing this essential data for the masses. Precious Ebiendele, a student at the Federal University of Technology Akure, built a <a href="https://precious-ebiendele.shinyapps.io/covid9JA/">COVID-19 case tracker</a> for all of Nigeria after taking only two data visualization courses on DataCamp. He said, “For a new or aspiring data scientist, I would recommend DataCamp because of its simplicity and teaching method.”</p>
<p>If you know of a nonprofit organization that could take advantage of free subscriptions to DataCamp, please reach out to <a href="mailto:giveaway@datacamp.com">giveaway@datacamp.com</a>.</p>


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Learners at Data Science Nigeria are Achieving Personal and Professional Milestones With DataCamp

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<p>In the past few years, and especially during the COVID-19 crisis, the oil and gas industry has been significantly challenged, subject to wildly fluctuating oil prices caused by unprecedented world events, limited market access, and uncertain government regulations.</p>

<h2>Why data skills are crucial for the future of petroleum engineering</h2>
<p>Many professionals in petroleum engineering have been in the field for years and are reckoning with an incoming tide of digital transformation initiatives. They’re contemplating what these shifts in the digital landscape mean for their careers. Some are looking to enhance their skillsets, while others are considering pivoting out of engineering and into data-driven roles.</p>

<p>While individual aspirations vary, there’s a common refrain: Petroleum engineers are looking for different avenues to progress their data skills and need assistance determining what that path looks like. Learning these skills and putting them into practice in real-world petroleum industry projects remains challenging.</p>

<h2>The industry-wide importance of DUCs</h2>
<p>A topic of industry-wide importance is Drilled but Uncompleted Wells (DUCs), which impact the supply and demand of oil and gas, and are often the subject of intense discussion and controversy. At any moment, many potential wells have been drilled but not all wells are completed, impacting commodity pricing, regulatory reporting, and capital management. Industry stakeholders are looking for ways to determine how many DUCs exist and what conditions may cause them to begin producing.</p>

<h2>Building data literacy with DataCamp</h2>
<p>This is why DataCamp is proud to have sponsored the 2020 DUC Datathon presented by the <a href="https://www.spe.org/en/">Society of Petroleum Engineers</a> and <a href="https://www.untappedenergy.ca/">Untapped Energy</a>. In July and August, 150 participants received free access to DataCamp’s Premium plan, where they had the opportunity to become familiar with in-demand open-source programming languages like Python and R. Along with DataCamp access, participants took part in virtual bootcamps and instructor-led lessons on specific tools for data science in the field of petroleum engineering.</p>

<blockquote>The partnership and generosity that DataCamp demonstrated were critical to the success of the event. Analytics revealed that there was a high degree of engagement with DataCamp that more than exceeded expectations. DataCamp helped to level the playing field since we had such a diverse range of participants. Working with DataCamp really elevated the quality level of the event overall.
—Tim Chan, Cofounder, Untapped Energy</blockquote>

<h2>The 2020 DUC Datathon learning competition</h2>
<p>The goal of the Datathon was to foster data literacy skills for all participants, create new partnerships and relationships, and get participants comfortable working with data specific to DUCs.</p>

<blockquote>Participants use data in their roles but may not be bona fide data scientists. Regardless of their role, everybody is a data practitioner to some degree. The idea of this event is to leverage those skills, equip them with additional tools and learnings, and help them to tackle specific problems in their area of work.
—Tim Chan, Cofounder, Untapped Energy</blockquote>

<p>The 2020 DUC Datathon featured a learning competition, awarding one year of DataCamp access to the participant who completed the most courses.  Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive, which affirmed the goals of the event—especially in these strange times. Plans are underway for a similar but larger event in 2021.</p>

<blockquote>By using the DataCamp platform in July and August, I found that learning a new programming language has become simpler. Each topic has a detailed step-by-step guide, with practice through targeted questions, and case studies that helped to deepen my understanding. While learning Python, R, and SQL on DataCamp, I practiced using module imports and function calls and writing user-defined functions. It has greatly enhanced my ability to analyze, model, and interpret data.
—Jingwen Huang, winner of the 2020 DUC Datathon DataCamp Learning Competition</blockquote>

<p>As the world rapidly digitizes, data literacy has become a crucial skill—<em>everyone</em> now needs to be a data practitioner. You can also propel your career forward by combining learnings from a world-class learning platform like DataCamp with practical applications and networking opportunities from a datathon event.</p>

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DataCamp supported the 2020 DUC Datathon presented by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Untapped Energy.

Equipping Petroleum Engineers in Calgary With Critical Data Skills

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In this tutorial, you will build four models using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and K-Means clustering machine learning algorithms.

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