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<p><strong>For the last months, ThinkR has been involved (with Mango, Procogia and the Linux Foundation) in a working group for an RConsortium R Certification. </strong></p>
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<h3>Why this Working Group (WG)?</h3>
<p>No <strong>doubt the demand for R (and for Data Science) has been increasing over the past few years</strong> — Data Scientist became the sexiest job of the century according to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century" target="_blank">Harvard Business Review</a>, and Glassdoor listed it as the “Best Job in America” in 2016, 2017 and 2018. No need to argue on that point: data science is now one of the top skills to have on the market.</p>
<p>With the growth in interest came a growth of demands both from employers and people looking to improve their skills. To support this, several channels of training have been made available.</p>
<p>But even with that, it’s still complex today for the three parties involved in the field:</p>
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<li><strong>students</strong> (in a broad sense), who do not know where to start, and if self-taught don’t know how to “officially” validate their skills</li>
<li><strong>teachers</strong> and <strong>trainers</strong>, who have to face a constantly innovating field, and might not be able to identify the skills needed on the market</li>
<li><strong>recruiters</strong>, who might find it hard to identify key skills, diplomas, and certifications</li>
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<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-consortium.org/" target="_blank">RConsortium</a> came to the conclusion that there was no “official R certification” to assess one’s skills when it comes to R. Hence this WG, working to establish some ground rules for this certification.</p>
<h3>Towards a certification</h3>
<p>This certification will be useful for two key things:</p>
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<li>it will allow <strong>professionals and students to acquire practical, industry-driven skills in R</strong></li>
<li>it will <strong>help recruiter to identify the skills</strong> of potential recruits</li>
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<p>As it is crucial for this certification to be industry &amp; community-driven, we are currently conducting a little survey to get an overview of the current state of the sector, worldwide.</p>
<p>It would definitely help us a lot if you could take 3 minutes to answer this one <img alt="🙂" src="https://i1.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11/72x72/1f642.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
<h3><a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_of6ABXPeD6ADZNC0VjvdfbadKSzmG0jWLm2qYS9Q4Gtkxw/viewform" target="_blank"><img alt="👉" src="https://i0.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11/72x72/1f449.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1"> Find the survey here</a></h3>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://rtask.thinkr.fr/blog/rconsortium-building-an-r-certification/" target="_blank">RConsortium — Building an R Certification</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://rtask.thinkr.fr/" target="_blank">(en) The R Task Force</a>.</p>
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