Data Science

Bootcamp
Explore the fundamentals of data science and land your dream job
with the #1 ranked bootcamp in the world!

#1 ranked bootcamp in the world

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Contents

Why learn Data Science? 3

Job opportunities post-bootcamp 4

Testimonials from our Data Science graduates 5

Le Wagon Pedagogy 6

A typical day at Le Wagon 8

Data Science curriculum overview 10

Program Details 11

Career services 18

Financing options 19

Admissions Process & Prerequisites 20

FAQ 21
Why learn Data Science?

Data Science is one of the most in-demand and fastest-growing job categories in
technology. Data Scientist positions have grown by 650% since 2012, and will continue to
do so. By 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there will be a further
27.9 percent growth in demand for data science expertise.

That’s why the role of Data Scientist has been called “the most promising career” by
LinkedIn and the “best job in America” by Glassdoor.

WHO IS THE TRAINING FOR?

Professionals or graduates looking for a new career in tech with more meaning,
more opportunities and higher income.

People who want to dig into AI and big data and explore new exciting careers in
Data Science and Machine Learning.

Join Le Wagon, the most acclaimed tech training in the world!

17,000+ 93% #1
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Jobs opportunities post-bootcamp

After the training, you can apply for different roles in data, as an employee or as a
freelancer, and boost your career as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Big Data
Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, AI & Data Engineer.

AFTER LE WAGON

34 days 93% 38k€

Average time to find Of our students find Average starting salary for Le
a job after Le Wagon a job within 6 months after Wagon graduates in Europe
their training

Join Le Wagon graduates in companies like

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Reviews from our Data Science Alumni

Hear what our alumni have to say about our Data program.

Adriana Kosowski, ex Marketing Project Manager

Now Senior Data Consultant at IBM

“An experience that changed my life! I feel much more

competent. I was sad when it ended, I also met amazing
people!”

Capucine Dehaut, previously Project Manager

Now, Data Scientist at Getaround
“The bootcamp allowed me to acquire a solid foundation in Data Science,
to practice on real problems, to join a lively and close-knit international
community, but also to quickly land the job of my choice: Data Scientist. I
100% recommend Le Wagon!”

Joseph Gulay, previously Engineer

Now, Data Analyst at EY
“If you are looking for a bootcamp that offers a comprehensive
curriculum, a great learning environment and incredible
post-bootcamp career support then Le Wagon is for you!”

Christophe Arendt, ex Consultant

Now, Tech Lead and Data Engineer at Capgemini

“I warmly recommend Le Wagon to anyone who wants to sky rocket

their career in our increasingly digital world. Le Wagon is more than
just a coding school it’s a proper experience and a human melting
pot.”

Sarah Hunt, former Neuroscientist

Now, Senior Data Scientist at Atlassian

“After the bootcamp, I felt really supported and actually landed a

role as a Data Scientist via Le Wagon. The skills that I learnt in the
bootcamp were really helpful in this new role.“

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Le Wagon pedagogy

Le Wagon pedagogy is based on immersive and intensive training that will allow you to
acquire all the soft skills and techniques to build a software product in teams in just a few
weeks. Our passionate teachers will help you reach your objectives.

WHAT MAKES LE WAGON UNIQUE

Small cohorts with 1 teacher for 7 students

90% of practice on real-world tech projects with peers

Get real-time answers to never be stuck

Lifetime access to Le Wagon’s learning platform

Product-driven, learn to build your app!

Join a unique tech community

Embark on a unique experience filled with challenges and mutual

support with all of the other students in your Bootcamp.
Join an international community of 17,000+ Le Wagon alumni!

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Authors and teachers

Boost your data skills alongside Data experts worldwide! For example:

Bruno Lajoie Mathieu Ripert Igor Koval

Head of Data Science Staff ML Engineer ML Researcher

Martin Daniel Isabel Fonseca Eduardo H. Garcia

Ex Data Science Lead Data Scientist Data Scientist

Yassine Laghrari Jean Bizot Clémentine Contat

Quantitative Researcher Ex Head of Data Ex Lead ML Product
Manager

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A typical day at our full-time bootcamps

9.00 AM - 10.30 AM: Live lecture

Grab a coffee and start every morning with an engaging & interactive
lecture, illustrating key concepts with lots of practical examples,
before putting what you’ve learnt into practice.

10.30 AM - 4.00 PM: Challenges

Pair up with your buddy for an intensive day of work on a series of

programming challenges and real-world tech projects with the
support of our teaching staff, who will re-explain concepts and help
you solve problems whenever you need.

4.00 PM - 5.00 PM: Break

Learning how to code can be very intense, which is why we organise

special activities, talks and various events on certain days to help you
unwind or develop your industry knowledge and network.

5.00 PM - 6.00 PM : Live Code

Review the day’s challenges in a live session where your teacher will
walk you through the correction of important coding challenges. Get
an overview of upcoming lessons during live code sessions.

Looking for more flexibility?

We offer in person and online bootcamps in both full-time and

part-time formats. Contacts our admissions team for more
information.

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Curriculum overview

Data Analytics Toolkits

Master the fundamental tools of programmatic data-analysts: Python as a
backbone, SQL for queries and Jupyter Notebooks for visualization.

Decision Science
Leverage statistics to build advanced analyses and take well-informed business
decisions: statistical inferences, hypothesis testing, multivariate regression and
confidence intervals.

Machine Learning & Deep Learning

Master Machine Learning and Deep Learning workflows (data preparation, model
selection, evaluation, and fine-tuning) and understand mathematical concepts
and numerical implementations behind models.

ML Engineering & Team Projects

Package your models into replicable Python code that can be trained on big
data in the cloud, using virtual machines and online databases. Monitor and
retrain models when needed, and expose them to the world through APIs.

Final projects
Projects Phase is the ultimate experience of the course: invent, pitch, design, code
and deploy an original project in teams of 3 or 4 people during the two final weeks.

Career Week
During the career week, you will meet tech experts working in startups and companies,
prepare your CV and do mock interviews to prepare your job search.

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Phase 0 - Prepwork: get ready to start the bootcamp

Once you’ve been accepted, you'll receive about 40 hours of online learning resources,
carefully curated by Le Wagon to be intuitive and interactive. This prepwork will ensure you
have the necessary foundations in Python and maths before the bootcamp starts.

Key skills you’ll learn:

How to setup your learning environment (notes, text editor, ...)

Terminal, Git and OS basic commands

Python foundations

Maths foundations (in a fun & intuitive way!)

What you’ll do in practice

➔ 40 hours of online tutorials

➔ Online quiz to validate your understanding of basic tech concepts

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Phase 1 - Data Analysis

Learn Python for data science: extract data from relational databases, manipulate big data
matrix and build visualizations. Understand key maths concepts for data analysis like
statistics & linear algebra.

Key skills you’ll learn:

To source data from files, web scraping, or APIs

To manipulate data with Python, Pandas & Numpy

To query / store data with SQL & Google Big Query

Visualization with Jupyter Notebook, Matplotlib, Seaborn & Plotly

What you’ll build in practice

➔ A database built by scraping data from online bookstores

➔ Advanced analysis of football performance in SQL
➔ Visual dashboard connected to stock-market APIs

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Phase 2 - Decision Science

Put yourself in the shoes of a data consultant, and learn how to survive the data preparation
phase of a vast dataset. Extract insights by interpreting statistical results based on
multivariate regression models, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals.

Key skills you’ll learn:

Statsmodels for multivariate linear/logistic regression

Packaging and object-oriented programming in Python

Notebook-based presentations with interactive graphs

What you’ll build in practice

➔ 40h-long data consulting challenge based on real data from a marketplace
➔ Individual presentations of your key findings for your client

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Phase 3 - Machine Learning

Implement the Machine Learning (ML) workflow with Scikit-Learn (data preparation, feature
engineering, model selection, evaluation, and fine-tuning) and understand maths intuitions
and numerical implementations of ML models.

Key skills you’ll learn:

Scikit-learn and XGBoost libraries

Supervised learning (linear, KNN, SVM, Trees, Ensembles)

Unsupervised learning (PCA, K-means, t-SNE, DBSCAN)

Structured data (tabular, time-series with SARIMAX…)

Unstructured data (images, text with Naive-Bayes, Tf-ids, LDA…)

What you’ll build in practice

➔ Machine Learning models perfectly fine-tuned to your tasks

➔ Pipelines combining data processing and model predictions
➔ An image compression model by color clustering
➔ Spam detection algorithms
➔ Prediction model for house prices

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Phase 4 - Deep Learning

Unveil the magic behind Deep Learning! Understand the architecture of neural networks
(neurons, layers, stacks) and their parameters (activations, losses, optimisers). Build your
own neural networks (dense, recurrent, or convolutional), to work on images, sequences and
texts. Learn how to re-use and transfer learning from pre-trained “big-models” from latest
open-source research! Get your hands dirty with auto-encoders, batch data processing
pipelines, and GPU training.

Key skills you’ll learn:

Scikit-learn and XGBoost libraries

Supervised learning (linear, KNN, SVM, Trees, Ensembles)

Unsupervised learning (PCA, K-means, t-SNE, DBSCAN)

Structured data (tabular, time-series with SARIMAX…)

Unstructured data (images, text with Naive-Bayes, Tf-ids, LDA…)

What you’ll build in practice

➔ Dense neural network for fraud transaction detection
➔ Transfer learning for image classification
➔ Auto-encoders for image compression and denoising
➔ Recurrent networks for weather forecasting
➔ World embedding for sentiment analysis or text autocompletion

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Phase 5 -Machine Learning Engineering (MLOps)

Turn your best handcrafted models into a replicable python package that can be trained on
big data in the cloud, using virtual machines and online databases. Monitor your model
performance as new data comes in, retrain it when needed, and expose its predictions to the
world via APIs or websites.

Key skills you’ll learn:

VS code & command line

Google Cloud, Virtual Machines, SSH for the trainer

MLflow & Prefect for DAG orchestration

Docker & Fast API for the backend

Streamlit for the frontend

What you’ll build in practice

➔ ML model for predicting taxi fares, trained on big data on the cloud with GPUs
➔ Visual web dashboard showing live predictions (oncharts, maps, etc.)
➔ Trained models in production capable of self-healing
➔ World embedding for sentiment analysis or text auto-completion

Discover graduate stories in videos

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Phase 6 - Build your own data project from scratch

Projects Phase is the ultimate experience of the course. Collaborate efficiently in teams of
3-4 people on a real data science project that you will either join or pitch to your class. Use
either open-data repositories (government initiatives, Kaggle, Paper with Code, etc...) or bring
your own private dataset. With full-time mentoring from expert teachers, let your wildest
dream come true!

Diversity in Hollywood
Representation in cinema

Using an ensemble of CNN models, Diversity in Hollywood

detects gender and race in a given film to generate an
overview of diversity.

Watch the project demo on Youtube

Will it fit?
Click and collect

Through web scraping and an optimization algorithm, Will it

fit? ensures that your online shopping cart will fit in the trunk
of your car upon collection.

Watch the project demo on Youtube

The Lemon Project

Lemon farm quality control

The Lemon Project uses Deep Learning to help identify

whether a lemon is healthy or unhealthy, sorting them for use
optimization: food or cleaning products.

Watch the project demo on Youtube

Watch more student projects on Le Wagon Youtube!

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Career services

Our career services will get you ready to land a job in tech through personal coaching and a
network of 985 hiring partners.

Benefit from 1:1 coaching Get access to Le Wagon content

Meet our Career team for a 1:1 coaching You will get access to Le Wagon’s career and
session to help guide you in your career path course resources for life, including a selection
and review your application strategy and of perks with companies such as AWS,
documents. Angolia or Go Rails.

Meet our hiring network Tap into our international alumni

We have more than 985 hiring partners with
whom we organise regular recruiting events.
network
With 17,000+ alumni worldwide, Le Wagon's
global community offers you endless
recruitment and networking opportunities.

Take part in our career week

At the end of the bootcamp, you’ll take part

Download the jobs report
in a condensed week to get you prepared for
your future career.

AFTER LE WAGON

34 days 93% 38k€

Average time to find Of our graduates find Average starting salary for
a job after finishing Le a job within 6 months after Wagon graduates in Europe
Wagon’s course the course

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Financing options

Finances shouldn’t be a barrier to accessing life-changing bootcamps. We’re

always finding new ways to facilitate payments and fundings.

Public funding

Instalments

Scholarships

Student Loans

Income Share Agreement (ISA)

And more!

Explore your financing options

What you’ll build in practice
Financing options are different in each country and have their own
eligibility criteria. Learn what options are available to you or reach out
to our enrolment teams to have more information.

Explore our financing options

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Admissions Process & Prerequisites

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Online Application

Apply online with a short motivation statement and information about your background and
why you'd like to join the Data Science Bootcamp. Seats for the next cohorts are often
booked quickly so we recommend to apply quite early.

Apply Now

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30 min informal, non-technical interview

This is your opportunity to have all of your questions answered by our Admissions team
and for us to find out more about your background, career goals and motivations to join.

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Technical Quiz

You will then take a quiz to assess your tech knowledge and your capacity to learn in a fast
paced, hands-on environment. We want to make sure that you make the most out of the
bootcamp.

Suggested Requirements

You'll need to be comfortable with data structures and get a

High School level of Maths, meaning you will be comfortable
with functions, derivatives, and systems of linear equations.

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Payment options & prepwork

The last step will consist of finding the most suitable financing option for you. Then,
you'll jump into the prepwork which consists of 40 hours of training.

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FAQ

I don't have any technical background, can I join the course?

Some suggested requirements include programing and mathematics. You’ll need to
be comfortable with data types & variables, conditions, loops, functions and data
structures and have a High School level of Maths.

In the case you don't have these prerequisites, we offer a free learning track called
Data Science Fundamentals that will get you ready for the technical prerequisites of
our course. Get in touch with our admissions team to request free access to it.

How can I finance the course?

Some cities offer specific funding options with local financial partners, like deferred
tuition plans, student loans with interesting conditions or Income Share Agreements
(ISA). Find out more here.

Do you offer career support?

Yes, once the bootcamp ends, you will benefit from our career services. Our local
team will help you prepare for tech interviews, meet the best local recruiters and
connect you 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 global alumni community, and gain access to
useful Slack channels to find jobs or freelance opportunities.

What will I be able to do at the end of the Data Science bootcamp?

At the end of the course, 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

You have more questions?

Find your answer here!

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