Data Science

course.
Learn Data Science in 9 weeks
Table Of Contents
Everything about our data science course.

Overview 3

What you will learn 4

Course Outcomes 5

Course Authors 6

Detailed Curriculum 7

Our Community 23

Our Online Platform 24

Alumni Jobs 25

Alumni Startups 26

FAQ 27
Overview
In 9 intensive weeks, learn data science from Python to
advanced Machine Learning, get all the skills to join a data
science team and boost your career.

Think like a data scientist.

From Pandas to Deep Learning, you will finish the course knowing how to
explore, clean and transform data into actionable insights and how to implement
Machine Learning models from start to finish in a production environment,
working in teams with the best-in-class tool belt.

A lifetime community.
Our data science course is just the beginning of the journey. Once you graduate
from Le Wagon, you belong to a global tech community. You keep access to our
online platform with all your course content and you belong to an active Slack
workspace where you keep learning, receive tips and advice from professional
data scientists, access exclusive job and freelance opportunities from
entrepreneurs & developers. You also benefit from our career services and we
help you connect with the best recruiters looking for talent in data-related roles
through networking events, job fairs and coaching.

Successful graduates.
More than 10,000 alumni have graduated from Le Wagon. Many of them have
joined tech companies as engineers, developers, analysts or product managers.
A lot of them also have started a career as freelancers or launched their startup,
with the most successful raising up to $13.5M.
What you will Learn.
We’ve been designing tech curriculums since 2013 and are
committed to excellence. In 9 weeks, you will be able to:

Master programming applied to Deploy Machine Learning models in

Data Science in Python production with Google Cloud
Platform
Design relational databases and
build advanced queries with SQL Build and train fully connected deep
neural networks to solve classification
Grasp the mathematic concepts and regression problems
behind data science: statistics,
probability and linear algebra Use neural networks for object
detection and recognition
Conduct advanced analysis with
Jupyter notebook, Pandas and Use the best practices when working
Statsmodels on a data science project within a tech
team
Implement Machine Learning
supervised and unsupervised models
with scikit-learn

Learn Machine Learning best

practices (preprocessing, training
and testing, performance metrics,
etc.)

World’s most acclaimed coding bootcamp

Le Wagon is the world’s most acclaimed coding
bootcamp, with an average grade of 4.98/5
according to 1800+ student reviews on SwitchUp.
Course Outcomes.
Learning to explore, clean, analyse and predict data can lead
to different paths. Here are the possible outcomes for you
once you’ll graduate from our data science course:

Become a data analyst, data engineer, data scientist,

or data manager for some of the world’s best tech
companies (Google, Uber, Getaround, Trainline,
Doctolib, etc…).

Kickstart a career as freelance data scientist helping

companies solve their problems with data from
wherever you want, and find freelance opportunities
through Le Wagon’s network and 43 worldwide
campuses.

Launch a data service or product as an entrepreneur,

found your company, raise money to accelerate your
growth and manage your data science team.

World’s most acclaimed coding bootcamp

Le Wagon is the world’s most acclaimed coding
bootcamp, with an average grade of 4.99/5 according
to 1800+ student reviews on Course Report.
Course Authors.
They’re professional developers, data scientists and Machine
Learning engineers. They’ve worked for the best tech
companies and are passionate about education.

Sébastien Saunier
CTO, Le Wagon

Sébastien is a software engineer with more than 10 years

of experience. He worked at Google & VirtuOz, one of the
first companies to buil AI conversational bots and has an
extended experience building tech curriculums.

Mathieu Ripert
Machine Learning, Instacart

After graduating from Columbia NYC, Mathieu is at the

inception of Le Wagon with the two co-founders. In 2014, he
joins Instacart in San Francisco as their first data scientist
and he is now in charge of the ML team at Instacart!

Igor Koval
PhD in Deep Learning, applied to neurosciences

Working for the center of applied maths of Ecole Polytechnique

and for the research lab at Brain and Spine Institute, Igor loves
to use his maths and coding skills to bring impact where it
matters, and share his knowledge in Deep Learning with
students.
Detailed Curriculum.
Learn data science step by step, starting with the basic data
toolkit in Python and Mathematics to the complete
implementation and deployment cycle of Machine Learning
algorithms.

Admission & Prepwork 40 hours online

1. Data Science Toolkit 2 weeks

2. Decision Science 1 week

3. Machine Learning 2 weeks

4. Deep Learning 1 week

5. Data Engineering 1 week

6. Final Projects 2 weeks

Admission & Prepwork.
Our data science course is very intense. To benefit from the
course with the best experience, our students must already
have some basic prerequisite skills and complete an online
preparation work of 40 hours before starting the bootcamp.

COURSE PREREQUISITES

Our data science course requires pre-requisite skills in programming and basic
concepts of Mathematics. Our Admission Manager will assess these skills during
the interview after you apply on the website and determine if you can enrol into
the course.

PREPARATION WORK - 40 HOURS

If you succeed in your interview with our admission manager, you will then have
to complete an online preparation work before starting the bootcamp. This work
takes around 40 hours and covers the basics of Python, the pre-requisite
language of the course, and some mathematical topics used every day by data
scientists.

SKILLS COVERED BY PREPWORK

Python Programming Basics

SQL Basics

Mathematics (statistics, probability)

1. Data Science Toolkit.
2 weeks
This module covers the fundamentals of Python and Mathematics for data
science. You'll learn the basics of programming in Python, how to work with
Jupyter Notebook & Jupyter Lab, and will become familiar with powerful
Python libraries used in data science, such as Pandas and NumPy, to explore big
data sets and conduct statistical analyses. Additionally, we'll teach you how to
collect data from various sources, including CSV files, SQL queries on relational
databases, Google Big Query, APIs and Web scraping. You'll also learn how to
build visualisations in order to transform your data into actionable insights.
Finally, you'll understand the concepts of probability, statistics and linear
algebra that underly Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

Python for Data Science - 1 week

Learn programming in Python, how to work with Jupyter Notebook and to use
powerful Python libraries like Pandas and NumPy to explore and analyze big
data sets. Collect data from various sources, including CSV files, SQL queries
on relational databases, Google Big Query, APIs and Web scraping.

SKILLS LEARNED

Using Jupyter Notebook

Loading and exploring a dataset

Extracting data from different sources

Pandas and NumPy

Google Big Query

Web scraping
 Relational Database & SQL - 2 days
Learn how to formulate a good question and how to answer it by building the
right SQL query. This module will cover schema architecture and then dive
deep into the advanced manipulation of SELECT to extract useful information
from a stand-alone database or using a SQL client software like DBeaver.

SKILLS LEARNED

Database schema architecture

Translate a business question into a SQL query

Advanced manipulations of SELECT

SQL client software like DBeaver or Metabase

Data Visualization - 1 day

Make your data analysis more visual and understandable by including data
visualizations in your Notebook. Learn how to plot your data frames using
Python libraries such as matplotlib and seaborn and transform your data into
actionable insights.

SKILLS LEARNED

Turn your data into insights with data visualizations

Different categories of charts

matplotlib and seaborn

 Statistics, Probability, Linear Algebra - 2 days

Understand the underlying math behind all the libraries and models used in the
bootcamp. Become comfortable with the basic concepts of statistics &
probabilities (mean, variance, random variable, Bayes’s Theorem, etc.) and
with matrix computation, at the core of numerical operations in libraries like
Pandas and Numpy.

SKILLS LEARNED

Statistics (mean, variance, standard deviation, distribution, etc.)

Probability (Bayes's Theorem)

Matrix calculus

WHAT OUR DATA SCIENCE STUDENTS SAY

“Our teachers are very qualified and the

range of tools we discover is wide: Python
(pandas, numpy, sklearn, keras ...) sql,
airflow, GCP. Through the various modules,
we learn to conduct analyses, from data
collection to pre-processing modeling.”

Paul Chabbert
Graduate, Data Science Course
2. Decision Science.
1 week

Statistical inferences - 4 days

You'll learn how to structure a Python repository with object-oriented
programming in order to clean your code and make it re-usable, how to survive
the data preparation phase of a vast dataset, and how to find and interpret
meaningful statistical results based on multivariate regression models

SKILLS LEARNED

Structure a Python project’s folder

Data Preparation

Hypothesis (A/B) Testing

Regression analysis

Communication - 1 day
Data analysts are meant to communicate their findings to non-technical
audiences: You will learn how to create impact by explaining your technical
insights and turn them into business decisions using cost/benefits analysis.
You'll be able to share your progress, present and compare your results to
your teammates.
3. Machine Learning.
2 weeks
In this module, you'll understand the different classes of machine learning
models and their applications. You’ll dive deep into the most used library in
Machine Learning: scikit-learn. You'll start with supervised learning and classic
methods like linear and logistic regressions to solve prediction tasks. You’ll
then move to unsupervised learning and implement methods like PCA for
dimensionality reduction or clustering for discovering groups in a data set.
Additionally, we'll teach you how to identify overfitting and the different
techniques available to avoid it. Finally, you'll learn how to tune and evaluate
different models to achieve best performance using methods like cross
validation and hyperparameter tuning. Along the way, you'll implement all the
essential learning algorithms such as KNN, Support Vector Machines and
Ensemble Methods like Random Forests or Gradient Boosting.

Preprocessing & Supervised Learning - 3 days

Learn how to explore, clean, and prepare your dataset through preprocessing
techniques like vectorization. Get familiar with the classic models of
supervised learning - linear and logistic regressions. Learn how to solve
prediction and classification tasks with the Python library scikit-learn using
learning algorithms like KNN (k-nearest neighbors).

SKILLS LEARNED

Preprocessing techniques (vectorization, features selection)

Linear and logistic regressions

scikit-learn for supervised learning

First algorithms like KNN (k-nearest neighbors)

 Generalization and Over!tting - 2 days
Implement training and testing phases to make sure your model can be
generalised to unseen data and deployed in production with predictable
accuracy. Learn how to prevent overfitting using regularization methods and
how to choose the right loss function to improve your model's accuracy.

SKILLS LEARNED

Training set versus testing sets

Model accuracy

How to avoid overfitting (regularization)

Generalization of a model

Performance Metrics - 1 day

Evaluate your model's performance by defining what to optimise and the right
error metrics in order to assess your business impact. Improve your model's
performance with validation methods such as cross validation or
hyperparameter tuning. Finally, discover a powerful supervised learning
method called SVM (Support Vector Machines).

SKILLS LEARNED

Cross validation

Hyperparameter tuning

Error metrics

SVM (Support Vector Machines)

 Unsupervised Learning - 2 days

Move to unsupervised learning and implement methods like PCA for

dimensionality reduction or clustering for discovering groups in a data set.
Complete your toolbelt with ensemble methods that combine other models to
improve performance, such as Random Forest or Gradient Boosting.

SKILLS LEARNED

scikit-learn for unsupervised learning

PCA (Principal Component Analysis)

Clustering model

Ensemble methods (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting)

NLP (Natural Language Processing)

“In only 9 weeks, Le Wagon gave me the keys

not only to be operational as a Data Scientist,
but also to understand the mathematical logic
behind the algorithms. I can't believe the
progress I have made in such a short period
of time, and it's all thanks to their amazing
team of teachers.”

Lorélie Mani
Data Scientist, Rakuten
4. Deep Learning.
1 week
The Deep Learning module covers the building blocks of Neural Networks. You'll
start by understanding what the Neural Networks are made of (neurons, layers,
stacks) and which parameters they rely on (activation functions, loss function,
optimizer). All these will be further used to build Convolutional Neural Networks
(for images), Recurrent Neural Networks (for time-series) and Natural Language
Processing designed networks (for text). The module ends with a real life
problem that will challenge you to optimize your features and architecture in
order to get the best accuracy.

By the end of the week, you'll be totally autonomous to build your own networks,
designed for your own purposes.

Managing Images and Text data - 1 day

Get comfortable with managing high-dimensional variables and transforming
them into manageable input. Learn classic preprocessing techniques for
images like normalization, standardization and whitening. Apply the right type
of encodings to prepare your text data for different NLP tasks (Natural
Language Processing).

SKILLS LEARNED

Image preprocessing (normalization, standardization, whitening)

Text encodings for NLP

 Deep Learning Basics - 1 day
Understand the architecture of neural networks (neurons, layers, stacks) and
their parameters (activation functions, loss function, optimizer). Discover a
new library called keras, which is a developer-friendly wrapper over tensorflow,
a Deep Learning library created by Google. We'll teach you the fundamental
techniques to build your first deep learning model with Keras.

SKILLS LEARNED

Architecture of a neural network (neurons, layers, stacks)

keras library

tensorflow, Deep Learning library created by Google

Convolutional Neural Networks - 1 day

Become autonomous to build your own Convolutional Neural Networks (for
images). Go further into computer vision with Deep Learning building networks
for object detection and recognition. Implement advanced techniques like data
augmentation to augment your training set by computing image perturbations
(random crops, intensity changes etc) in order to improve your model's
generalization.

SKILLS LEARNED

Convolutional Neural Networks

Object detection and object recognition

Data augmentation techniques

 Recurrent Neural Networks - 1 day
Become autonomous to build your own Recurrent Neural Networks (for time-
series), for instance to predict stock market prices or air pollution.

SKILLS LEARNED

Building recurrent neural networks

Natural Language Processing - 1 day

Become autonomous to build your own NLP Neural Networks (for texts), for
instance to perform sentiment analysis on text data.

SKILLS LEARNED

Building NLP neural networks

5. Data Engineering.
1 week
Learn all the best practices around experimenting with a real-world dataset and
how to use machine learning to solve an exciting problem. First, we'll teach you
how to become more productive in building a machine learning model by using
the right workflow. You'll move from Jupyter Notebook to a code editor and learn
how to setup a project in the right way in order to quickly and confidently iterate.
You'll also learn how to build a robust and scalable pipeline with sklearn-pipeline.
Machine learning requires a lot of data preparation, experimentation, iteration
and tuning. We'll teach you how to do your feature engineering and
hyperparameter tuning in order to build the best model. For this, we will leverage
a library called MLflow. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy your code and
model to production. Using Google Cloud AI Platform and Airflow, you'll be
able to train your model at scale, package it and make it available to the world.

Machine Learning Pipeline - 2 days

Move from Jupyter Notebook to a code editor and learn how to set up a
machine learning project in the right way in order to quickly and confidently
iterate. Learn how to convert a machine learning model into a model with a
robust and scalable pipeline with sklearn-pipeline using encoders and
transformers.

SKILLS LEARNED

From Jupyter Noteobook to Code

Setting up a good ML project (folders, files, etc..)

Using Sklearn-Pipeline (Encoders, Transformers)

Convert a model into a model with pipeline

 Machine Learning work!ow with ML!ow - 2 days
Building a machine learning model from start to finish requires a lot of data
preparation, experimentation, iteration and tuning. We'll teach you how to do
your feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning in order to build the best
model. For this, we will leverage a library called MLflow.

SKILLS LEARNED

Setup MLflow project

MLflow for Features Engineering

Hyperparameters tuning

Models Evaluation

Deploying with Google Cloud Platform - 1 day

Finally, we'll show you how to deploy your code and model to production.
Using Google Cloud AI Platform and Airflow, you'll be able to train your model
at scale, package it and make it available to the world.

SKILLS LEARNED

Google Cloud Platform

Google AI Platform

Training a model on GCP

Serving predictions

Airflow

Using external data like weather

6. Final Projects.
2 weeks
The goal of this module is to bring together all the components you've learned so
far and work on real open-ended problems in teams.

Student Projects - 2 weeks

You'll spend the last two weeks of the bootcamp on a group project working on
an exciting data science problem you want to solve! You will use a mix of your
own datasets (if you have any from your company / non-profit organisation)
and open-data repositories (Government initiatives, Kaggle, etc.). It will be a
great way to practice all the tools, techniques and methodologies covered in
the Data Science Course and will make you realize how autonomous you have
become.

SKILLS LEARNED

Formulating a problem on any data set

End-to-end Data Science Project

Presenting results with cost/benefits analysis

Career Week.
(1 week - optional)

Prepare yourself to dive into a new career through workshops,

talks and 1-to-1 coaching.

The career week is an optional 1-week schedule packed with practical

workshops to get ready for your next steps. From building a portfolio to
inspiring talks, prepare yourself for a new life in tech!

Design a resume geared for your career goals

Boost your online presence with LinkedIn and Github

Build a portfolio to showcase your projects

Learn to navigate the job market and apply for companies

Start your post-bootcamp learning journey with React

Meet with recruiting agencies

Listen to inspiring freelancers and entrepreneurs

Get introduced to our hiring partners

After this intensive Career Week, we offer dedicated, 1-to-1 coaching for all
our graduates through Office Hours.
Our Community.
More than 10,000+ creative alumni with various backgrounds
(engineers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, designers..) coming
from 50+ countries are chatting every day on Slack, getting
help from Le Wagon's teachers, sharing tips, resources, code
gists, job offers and news from their products. One of the best
tech communities in the world.

Check out our Slack to get a taste of it

You will always be welcome in our 43 campuses worldwide.

Our Platform.
We warned you, we are serious about education! That’s why
we’ve developed the best platform we could imagine for our
students:

300+ challenges

45 video lectures of 1h30 to re-watch any time after the bootcamp

100+ live-codes and tutorials on real-life examples

900+ flashcards to rehearse core concepts

Life-time access to our platform and all our future resources & tutorials

All this content has been developed thoroughly by Le Wagon's teachers for
the last 7 years, batch after batch, feedback after feedback. We believe a
great coding course demands lots of iterations and refinements to make sure
we are moving at the same pace as the tech we are teaching.
Alumni Jobs.
Our alumni now work for the best tech companies as
engineers, developers, data analysts, data scientists or
product managers.
Alumni Startups.
Le Wagon's community is also a strong network of
entrepreneurs. More than 140 startups have been launched by
Le Wagon alumni, 69 of them having successfully raised
funding for a total of over $130M to date.

30 of these startups have raised between $1M and $13.5M

19 of these startups have raised between $300,000 and $999,000

130+ active startups have been launched by Le Wagon alumni

50% of the founders meet each other during the bootcamp

Successful companies that have

emerged from Le Wagon include
Skello, Workelo, Regaind (acquired by
Apple), Travelsify, Side.co, Plato,
Scalia A-line, Kudoz and many more…
 FAQ.
All you need to know before applying to our
data science course.

1. Tuition fees, scholarships, funding options

What are the tuition fees?
Price may vary depending on the location and its cost of living. You will find prices for
our different courses on the page of each city on Le Wagon’s website (accessible
from the top navigation bar).

Are there any scholarships available?

Some cities offer scholarships for co-founders, locals, women in tech, or in
partnership with local organisations. You will find more details about these
scholarships on the page of each city on Le Wagon’s website. Also feel free to reach
out to the local admission manager for more information and possible assistance.

What payment plans do you offer? What are the instalments and payment
schedule?
The bootcamp is to be paid in several instalments. The number of instalments varies
depending on the city. Please reach out to the local admission manager for any
questions - she/he'll be happy to share any specificities on this matter.

Are there other funding options available, like deferred tuition, student loans or
ISA?
Some cities offer specific funding options with local financial partners, like deferred
tuition plans, student loans with interesting conditions or Income Share Agreements
(ISA). Again, you will find more details about these options on the page of each city
on Le Wagon’s website. Also feel free to reach out to the local admission manager to
have more details about their local funding options.
2. Application, Selection, Preparation
How can I apply to a course?
To apply to a course, you just need to complete and submit the application form on
our website, choosing the course (web development, data science), the format (9-
week full-time, 24-week part-time) and the city you're interested in. This is a rather
quick process, that takes a few minutes. We will then schedule an interview (by Zoom
or on-site) to understand your goals more in details.

How will you evaluate my online application?

In your online applications, we're only looking for one thing: motivation. Our
bootcamps are very intense, fast-paced and demanding, and we will select only the
most motivated students to get onboard. Make sure that you explain why you want to
join Le Wagon in your application - the more details you give us, the better chance
you have to get selected for the interview.

What's the interview about?

If you apply to our data science bootcamp, our admission manager will also ensure
that you already have some prerequisite skills in programming and Mathematics since
the course builds up on these foundations.
Very quickly after the interview, you'll receive a notification to let you know if you've
passed the interview and what the next steps are.

What are the next steps after the interview? Are there any assessments?
There is no online assessment for the data science course since our admission
manager will already check that you have the prerequisite skills in programming and
Mathematics during the interview.

How will I know if I get accepted?

If you pass the interview with our admission manager, it means you have both the
motivation and the prerequisite skills. Congratulations, you can now join the data
science bootcamp. Our admission manager will get back to you with a contract and
send you the preparation work to complete before the beginning of the course.

Is there any preparation work once I get accepted?

Yes, we will send you an online preparation work once you've passed all the selection
process. This work takes around 40 hours and covers the basics of programming
with Python and SQL as well as some key concepts of Mathematics used every day
by data scientists. This prepwork is absolutely mandatory and must be completed
before the beginning of the bootcamp.
Can I join a waiting list if a session is full?
It is very rare that candidates abandon ship once they have been accepted to the
course. Nevertheless, we always open a waiting list when bootcamps are full, in case
this happens! To join the waiting list, you will have to to go through the exact same
application process.

How should I choose the right city to do the course?

Le Wagon fulfils the exact same mission in all of our locations. The curriculum is the
same everywhere as are all of our materials (lectures and exercises). Teachers and
teaching assistants are hired and trained in the same way all around the globe.

Our advice to help choosing a city would be:

- Environment: it is ideal to do the bootcamp in a city where you would like to build
something - either take part in its tech community, launch your startup, or find a job
- Quality of life: can I afford it ? Would I like the climate ? etc.
- Language: check the language in which the bootcamp is actually done (our
bootcamp is taught in English in most of our cities, but there are several exceptions -
in Sāo Paulo and Belo Horizonte, the lectures are in Portuguese, in France the
bootcamp is in French, etc.)

When will the next sessions take place?

We usually open applications 4 to 5 months in advance. You will see the next batch
dates on the page of each city on Le Wagon’s website (accessible from the top
navigation bar). If you're unsure about anything, feel free to reach out to the
admission manager of a specific city. She/He will gladly answer all of your questions
and contact you as soon as we open the applications for the upcoming batch.

Do you help international students to get a visa?

Depending on your situation and where you would like to do the bootcamp, you will
potentially need a tourist or business visa. Please reach out to the city's admission
manager for more information and possible assistance.

Extra information: for mainland China, in some cases, we can invite you on a

Business Visa (M). Duration and number of entries vary according to your nationality.
Please consult our team to have more information.
3. Student pro!le
I don't have any technical background, can I join the course?
The data science course requires some basic knowledge of programming and
mathematics.

How much programming do I need to know?

Well, you must be comfortable with data types & variables, conditions, loops,
functions and data structures like arrays and dictionaries (also called hashes in some
programming languages). If you know those topics in other languages than Python
(like Ruby, JavaScript, C++, VBA, etc.), you have the right programming
prerequisites!

How much mathematics do I need to know?

In order to join our data science course, you also need a minimum level in
Mathematics and to be familiar with concepts covered in high school's scientific
section. We need you to be comfortable with functions, their derivatives & systems of
linear equations. To get up to speed, some additional preparation work will be given
to you before the bootcamp start to get a refresh of all these concepts as well as
more advanced knowledge on linear algebra and statistics.

Is there a typical profile for a Le Wagon student?

Our students all have very different profiles. They are between 18 and 55, and they all
share the same curiosity and enthusiasm for coding and data. They all come from
various background: undergraduates, marketers, engineers, sales, lawyers,
journalists, architects, musicians... Thus, spending 9 weeks at Le Wagon is not only
an incredible human experience, it also helps you build an astonishing network for
your after-bootcamp life to keep learning and find amazing job or freelance
opportunities!

I'm under 18 years old, can I apply?

You need to be 18 to enroll for the course. However, you can apply if you are 17 as
long as you turn 18 before the start of the bootcamp.

I'm over 50 years old, should I apply?

We’ve had students over 50 in the past and they’ve succeeded in learning web
development or data science and staring new careers like anyone else. Age doesn’t
make any differences in the recruitment process to get onboard, the only thing we
consider is your commitment and your motivation.
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I don't currently have an idea of a final project to work on. Is it a problem?
Don't worry about it! Students with a project are invited to pitch their idea during the
bootcamp while people without one are welcome to team up with them.

What language is the bootcamp taught in?

In most cities, the bootcamp is taught in English.

In French cities, the program is in French. You will have a 1h30 lecture in the morning
in French, and a 1h30 live-code in the evening in French as well. So, if you don't
understand French correctly, you won't be able to attend the bootcamp in France.

In some other cities (São Paulo, Shanghai, Chengdu, Tokyo) specific sessions are
organised in other languages (Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese). You can
check the language of the next batch on the "Apply" page.

Do I need a laptop?
Each student must have a laptop. You’ll need Mac OS X or Linux, but if you only have
Windows, no worries, you’ll learn how to install Linux the first day.

A Microsoft Surface or Apple iPad won't do. Those are not real computers. If you
need a piece of advice on what to buy, please contact the staff.

4. Course info and schedule

What's the course schedule? What's the level of commitment required?

Full-time schedule
The full-time bootcamp is a 9-week program, from Monday to Friday, 9am - 6pm. To
get the most out of the program, you need to be fully committed to it as it is a truly
demanding experience (360 hours of code in 9 weeks!). Generally, people who keep
a side activity during the bootcamp struggle to keep pace.

Part-time schedule
The part-time bootcamp is a 24-week program, where students have two remote
sessions from 7pm to 10pm generally on Tuesday evening and Thursday evening, and
come for one on-campus session on Saturday all day from 9am to 6pm.
In addition, part-time students have some homework and course videos to watch
before coming to an on-campus or remote session to benefit the most from the
session, e.g. practice, interact with their classmates and ask their questions to
teachers instead of listening to a lecture after a day of work. The part-time program
is really a marathon of 24 weeks! It requires students to be rigorous, to do their
homework, and be even more committed than for full-time. Note that the part-time
schedule can be slightly adapted in each city and includes some breaks for public
holidays.

The part-time bootcamp has been designed to fit around a full-time job or other
commitments during the working week, with live sessions held in the evenings and
weekends. Check out the city page of the campus you are interested in to see the
weekly schedule. The weekly time commitment is 16 hours, with 14 hours of schedule
live sessions and 2 hours of video recorded lectures to watch.

What is the main difference between Le Wagon and other coding bootcamps?

7 years of experience
Le Wagon was founded in 2013 and has more than 7 years of experience teaching
tech skills and helping people change their life, start a career in tech and thrive in
their new job. More than 10,000 alumni have graduated from our bootcamps in 43
cities around the world, and Le Wagon is the most acclaimed coding bootcamp
worldwide on Switchup according to student reviews. Feel free to reach out to any of
our graduates on Linkedin to hear what they have to say about Le Wagon.

Making you team-ready

We've spent a lot of time improving our two bootcamps in web development and data
science to teach our students the core concepts and give them solid foundations, but
also to make sure they learn how to collaborate in a tech team with the right
methodology and workflow, and that they know how to use modern tools and apply
best practices in Web Development and Data Science. This makes Le Wagon's
graduates extremely interesting for tech recruiters since lots of other bootcamps
don't necessarily teach these extra skills focusing their curriculum more on a specific
technology or language.

A unique community
Le Wagon's community is the most active bootcamp network with more than 10,000
alumni, 140+ startups founded by alumni (raising more than $130M altogether) and
1,000 teachers in web development and data science. Once you graduate from Le
Wagon, you belong to this vibrant family, you will keep learning for life with the
support of this community, and access unique job and freelance opportunities.
What is the main difference between Le Wagon and an academic degree in
Computer Science or Data Science?
The main difference between an academic degree and a bootcamp is that we don't
start from scratch and we learn with a lot of practice using modern tools and
methods. In an academic curriculum in CS or DS, you will start learning all the
theoretical knowledge (e.g. hardware layer of your computer for a CS degree, or
advanced concepts of linear algebra and statistics for a DS degree) before moving to
applied topics like web development or machine learning. This is only useful if you
want to be able to navigate between these layers.

However nowadays, you can build almost anything while only mastering the last part.
That's why we designed our bootcamps this way. Of course you won't work at Tesla
as a software engineer or at Google as a Deep Learning expert (unless you already
have a scientific background when joining our bootcamp) but you will be able to work
on your own tech products, web applications and data science projects or find a job
as a junior developer, data scientist, data analyst or product manager with enough
skills and knowledge to get started in your new company and bring value. Of course,
that will be your role to keep learning in your new job and become more expert in
specific topics.

Do you provide accommodation/catering?

We do not provide accommodation or catering. The price of the course only includes
the tuition - and unlimited tea, coffee, fruits. Nonetheless, our city managers will be
more than happy to recommend some great places for your stay as they are used to
helping students find accommodation and have lots of good plans.

5. Data Science curriculum

What will I be able to do at the end of the data science bootcamp?
At the end of the 9 weeks (full-time) or 24 weeks (part-time), you will have all the
skills you need to launch your career in a data science team. You will finish the course
knowing how to explore, clean and transform data into actionable insights and how to
implement machine learning models from start to finish in a production environment,
working in teams with the best-in-class tool belt.

You will then have different options:

- Find a job and join a team as data scientist, data analyst or data engineer
- Work as a freelancer on data science projects
- Launch a data science project as an entrepreneur
Will I be able to find a job as a data scientist?
The job title "Data Scientist" can correspond to very different roles depending on the
company (startup, scale-up, big company), the product you're working on and the
team you will join.

After Le Wagon's data science bootcamp, you will be able to apply to data analyst
jobs. For data scientist or data engineer jobs, it will depend on the company and their
criteria. For instance, some big tech companies (e.g. Airbnb or Facebook) will only
accept data scientists profiles with a PhD in Mathematics, so you will not be able to
apply to these positions unless you come to our data science bootcamp with a strong
background in Mathematics already. In lots of smaller companies (like early-stage
startups or data agencies) they will accept candidates with solid foundations in data
science but less academic background in Mathematics, so they will be very
interested in your profile after the course.

6. Career services
Do you offer career support?
Once the bootcamps ends, you will benefit from our career services. Our local team
will organise a career week (see « Career Week » page) and help you prepare for
tech interviews, meet the best local recruiters and connect with relevant alumni. You
will also have access to a complete guide to kick-start your tech career after the
course: boost your portfolio, prepare for technical interviews, leverage on our 10,000
alumni community, but also to lots of useful Slack channels to find jobs or freelance
opportunities.

Our career team will introduce you to the right people depending on your goal and
you will meet with inspiring alumni who will come back to share their post-bootcamp
experiences, like how they found a job, started their own company or freelancing
career.

These are the career services Le Wagon provides, offline or online depending on the
COVID-19 situation in your city:
- Networking events, job fairs, career workshops and office hours with alumni or tech
recruiters
- Coaching sessions with our Talent Manager or local alumni
- Resources our Career Playbook
- Introductions to our network of hiring partners through our Hiring Newsletter
7. Tech Recruiters
Is it possible to share our job offer(s) with your alumni?
Yes of course. However recruitment is a long-term relationship and as such we would
love to connect with you first!

Do you organise recruitment events?

Yes we do! From regular events to great workshops to promote your company's
culture we would love to discuss the best format fitting your needs around a coffee.
Contact us through our Career Services page to tell us a bit more about you and join
our hiring network!