DataCamp’s mission is to build the best online platform for data science education with a focus on R and Python. In this post, we share our journey during 2015 and our plans for 2016 (hint: we’re hiring)*:
2015 IN REVIEW
2015 – The data**
Since we’re all obsessed with data, let’s start with some numbers: In 2015…
- the number of registered DataCamp learners grew by ~ 175,000 to a total of ~ 285,000 students
- these students achieved ~ 200,000 course completions
- our servers digested ~ 16.7 million (R) code submissions (!)
- the enrollment of…
- the largest Group on DataCamp had 327 members
- ~ 8,000 students added a DataCamp course completion certificate to their LinkedIn profile
- our best student completed 1581 exercises without looking at the hint or the solution :-O!
Of course, there are people and stories behind these numbers: people who found a job through DataCamp, a teacher who started using DataCamp in the classroom, and companies that started training their employees through interactive courses.
2015 – The subscription model
Since we started DataCamp at the end of 2013, we’ve always allocated a large amount of our time to the creation of courses and technology that are freely available to the community. However, like every business, we need to keep the lights on. That’s why we launched our subscription plan in early 2015. On top of our free courses, a DataCamp subscription gives you full access to our entire course curriculum for only $25/month (or $9/month for students). In less than one year, thousands of people have become DataCamp subscribers.
2015 – The instructors
Behind the scenes, we share the revenue with external instructors, which has 2 benefits: (i) our students learn from the experts in every domain (e.g. who’s better to explain how to use a particular R or Python package than the actual package …read more
Source:: r-bloggers.com