Difference between revisions of "R Certification"
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2. Marketing and Promotions | 2. Marketing and Promotions | ||
3. Testing | 3. Testing | ||
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| − | + | * Certification Levels | |
4. How long the certificate remains valid | 4. How long the certificate remains valid | ||
5. Partnerships | 5. Partnerships | ||
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| − | + | * Certifications | |
6. Curriculum – | 6. Curriculum – | ||
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== Members == | == Members == | ||
Revision as of 16:01, 21 January 2017
Contents
Background
We have seen an exponential increase in the demand of R among a large and variant set of audiences. People from various domains are keen to learn it and further improve their skills. This has created a supply and demand gap which is being filled by various teaching channels. While there is no dearth of the amount of R teaching material, both in-class and online, there is still arguably a shortage in skilled R users who possess quality skills in R. This shortage of qualified personnel and abundance of self-taught data scientists leads to confusion for employers as well as prospective employees who have the required skill-set but no way to differentiate themselves.
Proposal
There is no system today to certify qualified R Professionals. The R-Consortium, as the governing body for the R community, needs to step in as the neutral agency before another third-party comes in with a similar certification mechanism and tries to fill this gap. From a competitive perspective, SPSS and SAS already has a certification mechanism in place.
Moving Parts
We understand that there are multiple moving pieces and we have identified 3 main areas to bucket them – 1. Specialization 2. Training 3. Testing 4. Certification We have also taken a stab at the sub categories under those buckets and the multiple paths that we can have for those functional areas that would allow the R Community to solve for the above mentioned challenges.
Key decisions to be made
The WG will work on the following elements regarding R certification:
1. Financials –
- Cost
- Vendor Cost
- Consortium Cost
- Student Cost
- Profits
2. Marketing and Promotions 3. Testing
- Pass/Fail outcome
- Percentage – 0 to 100%
- Certification Levels
4. How long the certificate remains valid 5. Partnerships
- Training
- Testing
- Certifications
6. Curriculum –
- Generic
- Pharmacy
- Financial
- Visualizations
- Others
7. Phased Approach
- Identify the next couple of phases
- Phase 1
- Phase 2
Members
- David Smith (Microsoft)
- Jeremy Reynolds (Microsoft)
- Jonathan Cornelissen (Datacamp)
- Martijn Theuwissen (DataCamp)
- Mark Sellors (Mango Solution)
- Aimee Gott (Mango Solutions)
- Hadley Wickham (ISC liason, RStudio)
- Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel (RStudio)
- Dinesh Nirmal (IBM)
- MeharPratap Singh (ProCogia)
