Higher-Education Institutions Upskill on Python and R

Many Dutch higher-education institutes are still using proprietary legacy systems like SPSS Statistics and Matlab to perform their research. The team of the Dutch Acceleration Plan Educational Innovation with IT knew that there was an opportunity for these educational institutions to leverage open-source technologies, including Python and R as a more affordable, flexible, and innovative solution to accelerate research with data science. But not everyone within the Dutch higher education system had the necessary data skills to use and promote these tools—that’s when they turned to DataCamp.