5 Reasons Why Business Analysts should Learn Data Skills
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The Difference Between a Business Analyst and a Data Analyst
Data is knowledge, and knowledge is power - but only if you know how to harness it. The most successful organisations...
Podcast: The Importance of Building Digital Capability in the NHS
Part of the NHS, Health Education England exists “to help improve the quality of life and health and care services for...
UK's first AI Apprentice awarded Merit certificate with Cambridge Spark
It was with great excitement that we received the news here at Cambridge Spark that one of our learners (who modestly...
Data Analysts vs Data Scientists - What's the difference?
Data Science and AI technologies are already having a major impact on business and society — from early and accurate...
5 Business Benefits of Data Analyst Apprenticeships
Your business is producing incredible amounts of data on a daily basis: about customers, user experience, web traffic,...
Data Analysts: Who are they and What do they do?
In the last decade, there’s been a massive surge in the adoption of data analytics to transform and optimise business...
Why Economists should embrace Data Science
Economists can make great data scientists and complement the skillsets of Data Scientists who have other backgrounds. I...
Studying Data Science via an apprenticeship
So, you want to upskill in Data Science. Great! The question is, what’s the best way to go about doing that? Whether...
How data analysts are adding value to businesses in every sector
Data analysts are in high demand across all sectors as more and more businesses are working to harness their data to...
Python vs Excel for Data Analysis
Excel has been a firm favourite for working professionals for many years and for good reason. Its wide capabilities and...
Introducing our new Data Analysis Foundation Certificate
We are thrilled to announce that we have added a brand-new offering to our suite of short-form commercial training...
Introducing our new Digital Business Analyst Apprenticeship
We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new Level 4 Digital Business Analyst Apprenticeship!
International Women’s Day 2022: ‘Break the Bias’
As part of our IWD 2022 celebrating women's achievement and raising awareness against bias, we talked to a selection of...
John Lewis Partnership Launch Cambridge Spark’s Largest Level 7 AI and Data Science Apprenticeship in the UK retail industry
The John Lewis Partnership has today launched Cambridge Spark’s largest Level 7 AI and Data Science cohort in the UK...
Webinar: The Level 3 NHS Data Citizen Apprenticeship
Cambridge Spark has partnered with the NHS Leadership Academy to deliver the NHS Data Citizen Apprenticeship. The...
Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week
In celebration of this year's National Apprenticeship Week, we are shining a spotlight on learner success and the...
Webinar: Building The Future at GSK with Data and AI Apprenticeships
A panel discussion with GSK during National Apprenticeship Week. Learn how GSK and Cambridge Spark are Building The...
Cambridge Spark Patents Innovative Learning Platform EDUKATE.AI
Today, Cambridge Spark announces patent EP3719653, a great milestone for the company.
Our responsibilities towards data privacy, with Ben Byford; on Data Protection Day
In celebration and to raise awareness of National Data Protection Day we invited Ben Byford, part of the Cambridge...
Cambridge Spark Makes Data Driven Journalism a Reality
Today, Cambridge Spark launches a brand new, and industry first, Data-Driven Journalism Apprenticeship which will equip...
Marks & Spencer and Cambridge Spark Data Science and AI Academy for Retail
Today marks a huge milestone for Digital & Data at M&S, as the retailer launches a brand-new Level 7 Data Science & AI...
Utility Warehouse and Cambridge Spark join forces to offer tailored apprenticeship to staff
The multiservice utility company has teamed up with the specialist data science and AI capability partner to upskill...
Cambridge Spark launch first cohort of the NHS Data Citizen Apprenticeship
Cambridge Spark and the NHS Leadership Academy are working in partnership to deliver the first cohort of the NHS Data...
MasterStart and Cambridge Spark partner to expand data science education offering
South African edtech MasterStart and UK-based Cambridge Spark have launched a partnership that will provide...
Why develop Data Science & AI strategic capability in your organisation?
In this article, Cambridge Spark's CEO and Founder, Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma, explains how to build capability that...
Apprenticeships: future proofing the workforce and promoting diversity in data science & AI
The world of work is changing fast. Data is the new currency and language, and it's everywhere. Yet many organisations...
The Year of MLOps
In this article, Cambridge Spark's CEO and Founder, Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma, explains what MLOps is and why it is crucial...
Cambridge Spark launches new upskilling programme for data literacy
Cambridge Spark, the specialist Data Science and AI learning partner for organisations and creators of the EDUKATE.AI®...
WEBINAR: How can apprenticeships help build Data Analytics and AI skills capability in your organisation?
Data and AI skills are a priority for senior leaders and management across organisations.
Webinar: L7 AI Apprenticeships for Data Science & Machine Learning
The L7 AI Apprenticeships for Data Science and Machine Learning Engineering was launched last month. The programme will...
Webinar: L4 Data Analyst Apprenticeship
Join us to learn more about our L4 Data Analyst Apprenticeship which equips learners with the technical abilities to...
Webinar: L7 AI Apprenticeships for Data Science & Machine Learning
The only L7 AI Apprenticeships for Data Science and Machine Learning Engineering in the UK has just been launched.
Webinar: Develop Analytics, Data Science & AI skills with government funding
Join us to learn more about how employers can grow and retain data science talent within their organisation through...
Webinar: L4 Data Analyst Apprenticeship
Join us to learn more about our L4 Data Analyst Apprenticeship which equips learners with the technical abilities to...
Webinar: L7 AI Apprenticeships for Data Science & Machine Learning
Join us on Thursday 15th October to learn more about our L7 AI Apprenticeships for Data Science and Machine Learning...
Webinar: “The Data Science & AI skills gap: how organisations are solving it”
A report stated that by “2020 we will have one million unfilled jobs in the IT sector. Primarily because the skills we...
IMC High-Performance Tech Workshop - 24 October 2020
Free Student Event | Saturday 24 October 2020 | Online Overview Portfolio trading and position management IMC Trading...
IMC Trading Workshop - 24 October 2020
Free Student Event | Saturday 24 October 2020 | Online Overview Real-world Quantitative Finance in Python IMC Trading...
Cambridge Spark launches government-funded upskilling programme for AI and Machine Learning
Cambridge Spark, the specialist Data Science and AI apprenticeship training provider and creators of the EDUKATE.AI®...
5 data science skills your business needs - and how to get them
Data science can add enormous value to any business. It’s not just relevant for data-driven departments and roles, but...
The benefits of 'learning by doing' in data science training
Many companies are choosing to build their data science capabilities from within, by upskilling their existing staff....
6 benefits of virtual learning for data science training
It’s an exciting time for people working in data science. Around 90% of the world’s data has been generated over the...
Top 10 FAQ's Employers have About the Data Analyst Apprenticeship
The Apprenticeship Levy is making it easier for companies to upskill their employees with the tools and knowledge to...
Learn How To Code In Python Over 10 Evening Classes
Cambridge Spark will launch a new Introduction to Python for Data Analysis Bootcamp at our brand new London AI Campus...
Cambridge Spark Launch Applied Data Science Bootcamp In Edinburgh
Cambridge Spark is launching a new Applied Data Science Bootcamp in Edinburgh on 12 September 2020.
Cambridge Spark launch London AI Campus and plan new AI apprenticeship
2020 is set to be a big year here at Cambridge Spark. We are about to open our new London AI Campus in Kings Cross, are...
Choosing a Data Analyst Apprenticeship Training Provider: 7 Tips for Employers
Upskilling your team with a Data Analyst Apprenticeship can help you build the internal capabilities your company needs...
Predicting Diabetes Progression Based on BMI, Using Linear Regression
In this tutorial, we will consider a very simple linear regression model, which is the backbone of several time series...
Cambridge Spark Launch Data Analyst Apprenticeship Academy
Cambridge Spark is launching a new Data Analyst Apprenticeship Academy in May 2020, to be held at their brand new...
The Apprenticeship Levy: helping companies fill the digital skills gap
The digital skills gap is being felt by businesses in every sector. 75% of UK executives are experiencing challenges in...
Word Embeddings in Python with Spacy and Gensim
Word embeddings are vector representations of words, which can then be used to train models for machine learning.
Neural Networks in Python: From Sklearn to PyTorch and Probabilistic Neural Networks
This tutorial covers different concepts related to neural networks with Sklearn and PyTorch. Neural networks have...
Webinar: Boosting Diversity in Tech - Make the Levy Work for Your Organisation - 6th February, 11:00-11:30 (GMT)
Overview This webinar will use the National Apprenticeship Week theme of “Look Beyond” to share factual information...
Introduction to Text Classification
In this tutorial, we will explore a basic workflow to train and evaluate a model to classify text. Note that there are...
Webinar: Recruiting and Retaining Data Scientists – 19th February, 12:00 - 12:30 (GMT)
There is an increasingly competitive market to find the right data science talent, with a limited talent pool and a...
Implementing your own recommender systems in Python
Nowadays, recommender systems are used to personalize your experience on the web, telling you what to buy, where to eat...
Apprenticeship Series: The Age of Apprenticeships
So far this blog has been based on my perspective, so I asked my colleagues from a range of training programmes, to...
Data Processing with Pandas Dataframe
The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you how to process data with Pandas DataFrame.
Apprenticeship Series: Fear of the Unknown
Welcome to October, the month of Halloween and all things scary. Something that has been worrying me recently is the...
An introduction to Uber’s new CoordConv architecture and its applications.
In 2018, Uber AI Labs developed a new layer for the deep learning practitioner: CoordConv. This concept was explained...
Webinar: Launch of the Artificial Intelligence (L7) Data Specialist Apprenticeship - 27th November, 12:30-13:00 (BST)
The webinar will help you Learn about higher-level apprenticeships for post-graduate skills Attract new talent and...
Quarterly Alumni Newsletter
Alumni Meetup: December 2019, London We partnered up with @wavelengthlaw to host a networking event for Alumni of our...
Apprenticeships Series: Why Trust Training Providers?
Welcome to my third blog on all things apprenticeships. This month will discuss why should employers trust...
Applied Data Science Bootcamp Graduation, London - 14th September 2019
Saturday 14th September 2019 marked a special day for a group of individuals who have embarked on a six-month journey,...
IMC High-Performance Tech Workshop - 20 October 2019
Free Student Event | Sunday 20 October 2019 | London Overview Portfolio trading and position management Are you an...
Apprenticeship Series: Fired Up About Diversity
Welcome to my second blog on all things apprenticeships. This month I’m burning to get you fired up and to spark some...
My Summer Internship at Cambridge Spark
Olivia competed against hundreds of applicants to land a 12-week Data Science internship within the technical team at...
Data Science: MSc or Bootcamp
This article might help you decide your next career choice. If you're unsure whether to do a Masters in Data Science or...
Six Free E-Books: Introductions to Python and Data Science
Take a look at the books we’ve chosen to help you develop and let us know what you think, or even if you’d like to see...
Meet Matt: Our New Digital Marketing Analyst
Matt joined Cambridge Spark's commercial team in Cambridge to work on the digital marketing strategy for the business,...
Fast-track to Data Science
An interview with Applied Data Science Bootcamp graduate, Amanda Borg, on her journey of landing a new job as an...
Apprenticeship Series: Apprenticeships, Degrees & Politics
This is the first instalment to the Apprenticeship Series, which aims to provide updates and insights into changes...
Data Engineering Festival London - 21 September 2019
Data Engineering Festival London FREE EVENT | SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2019 When and where Saturday 21st September 2019...
Cambridge Spark launches three new degrees in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University
CAMBRIDGE | JULY 19 2019: Cambridge Spark has announced a new partnership with Anglia Ruskin University. Together they...
Utilising Data Science in Finance
An interview with Applied Data Scientist Bootcamp graduate, Damien Yahi, on his experience with Cambridge Spark and how...
Upskilling yourself as a Data Scientist
An interview with Applied Data Science Bootcamp graduate, Paulina Figol, on her journey of upskilling herself as a Data...
Meet Elisa: Our New Account Executive
Elisa joined Cambridge Spark's commercial team in Cambridge to help our students and those interested in data science...
Leveraging Data Science in Luxury eCommerce
An interview with Applied Data Science Bootcamp Alumnus and Senior Customer Insight Analyst, Andonis Pavlidis.
Cambridge Spark host PyData open forum this November
CAMBRIDGE | MAY 13 2019: Data science recruitment and training provider, Cambridge Spark, announces they’ll be hosting...
Cambridge Spark awarded £1.4m for AI-powered data science EdTech platform
CAMBRIDGE | APRIL 9 2019: Cambridge Spark, leading provider of data science apprenticeships, training and recruitment,...
Brexit and Data Science
What can we make of the indicative votes in parliament? If you're following the Brexit process (who isn't in the UK!),...
An Introduction to Plotting
Introduction I'm a teaching assistant for several MSc courses, covering natural language processing, natural language...
6 Essential Tools for Data Science
Thanks to the incredibly active Data Science community, open source tools and libraries have become more trusted,...
Meet Tony: Our New Commercial Manager
Cambridge Spark is changing the way people learn Data Science and Software Engineering, and we're hiring driven and...
Introducing Students to Careers in Data Science and Engineering
On the 24th November, we welcomed students from various universities based within the UK to our ‘Machine Learning in...
Writing Impactful CV’s for Data Science roles
Your CV is often the first impression employers get of you. As with face-to-face meetings, impressions are created...
Applying Data Science to the Telecoms Industry
An interview with Matt Roberts, Strategic Analytics Manager at GiffGaff and Applied Data Science Online Bootcamp...
Bringing Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing to Software Development
We spoke with Daniel Palma, Product Owner at Ocado Technologies, to talk about his experience of the six-month...
From Data Analyst to Data Scientist
Helping individuals upskill and become more employable is at the heart of what we do. Our part-time, Applied Data...
Industry Capstone Projects
From the foundations to final projects, our Applied Data Science cohorts build up practical experience working on a...
Learning Data Science as a Software Engineer
Sunny is a senior software engineer working in the energy sector. He completed the Applied Data Science Bootcamp to...
Data Science Interviews: FiveAI on Hiring
This interview forms the first part of an ongoing series which will provide insight into the Data Science sphere,...
Data Science Interviews: causaLens on Hiring
An interview with Maksim Sipos, CTO at causaLens This interview forms the second part of our ongoing ‘Data Science...
Deploying a machine learning model to the web
Data scientists often have to communicate results to other people. In my case, my supervisors might want to see some...
Collecting web data without an API
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to extract data from Wikipedia pages. If you’ve ever gone through an online...
A brief overview of big data machine learning and feature selection
I am sure that lately all of you have been hearing a lot about Machine Learning and I guess if you are here, you are...
EDA and interactive figures with Plotly
A crucial step of any machine learning attempt is getting a good impression of your dataset. Exploratory data analysis...
Quick Panda tricks every Data Scientist should know
If you are new to the world of data science, Python's Pandas libraries are some of the best tools for quick data...
Getting started with regression and decision trees
Regression analysis is one of the approaches in the Machine Learning toolbox. It is widely used in many fields but its...
From simple regression to multiple regression with decision trees
In the previous post, Getting Started with Regression and Decision Trees, you learned how to use decision trees to...
Implementing your own knearest neighbour algorithm using python
In machine learning, you may often wish to build predictors that allows to classify things into categories based on...
From Web Technical Lead to Data Science
An interview with Applied Data Science Bootcamp graduate, Sanjay Hallan, on his journey of landing a Data Science role...
10 Things you’ve wondered about Data Science — FAQ #1.
As companies embrace the need to become “data-driven,” career opportunities in data science are increasingly available....
Acing the Data Science Interview: HR & competency interviews
This opinion post forms the second of our three part series ‘The Data Science Interview’ series, focusing on preparing...
Acing the Data Science interview: preparation and tests
This opinion post forms one of three parts of the ‘Data Science Interview series, focusing on preparing for an...
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