Richie Cotton

Likes data. Likes camping. Works at DataCamp. Quality of puns & opinions not guaranteed.

[Jonathan Cornelissen @CornelissenJo]

🚀🚀 Big news today: @DataCamp is acquiring AI startup Optima and..
👉 We are launching our new AI-native learning experience!
👉 Yusuf Saber is joining @DataCamp as Chief AI Officer

Why now? The best way to learn has always been: A great teacher with one student. But for most people, that kind of personalized attention has never been accessible. Similarly, for most organizations, scaling high-quality education is the challenge. Now, for the first time, we can bring the power of 1-on-1 tutoring to millions.

Our new experience is:
🎓 Truly personal — courses adapt in real time to your level, goals, and context
🛠️ Relevant to your work — finance analyst, student, marketer, engineer… it fits your world!
🧠 Human at the center — feels like a great teacher, not “AI hints” bolted onto videos.

What we're shipping:
✅ Free and Premium learners can try the AI-native experience in Introduction to AI and Introduction to SQL
🏢 Enterprise: can get a demo from our team as of today. We're moving towards customized learning at scale in 2026, aligned to your data, tools, and priorities.
Reach out for a demo of our team.

[BURKOV @burkov]

Join me and other cool folks at the RADAR AI conference! Here's the link to register: https://t.co/i22LKGgXev

[DataCamp @DataCamp]

How do we make sure AI benefits everyone? 🌍

@ianbremmer, President of @EurasiaGroup, political scientist, and bestselling author of "Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism", and @JimenaViverosAI, Chief of Staff and Head Legal Advisor to Justice Loretta Ortiz at the Supreme Court of Mexico, join @richierocks for a vital #DataFramed episode on the global impact of AI.

The trio explores the creation of @UN's AI Advisory Board, the opportunities and risks of AI, how AI impacts global inequality, the future of AI in politics and global society, and more.

🎧👉 https://t.co/ctfvpP7nkF

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

#DataFramed is live from the DataCamp London office. @CornelissenJo and @MartijnTheuwis1 give you the lowdown on what's about to happen in data & AI.

[DataCamp @DataCamp]

A must-watch #DataFramed: Our Co-Founders @CornelissenJo, CEO, and Martijn Theuwissen, COO, reveal their data and AI 2024 predictions. 👇

Joined by @richierocks, the trio break down generative AI's impact in 2023, how the programming languages for data are evolving, the job market and skill development in data science, and much more.

Key takeaways:

💥 AI literacy is for everyone. Regardless of your role, understanding core AI concepts is now crucial.
💥 Everyone will learn prompt engineering.
💥 While 2023 was about AI experimentation, 2024 will evolve to production and scalability

Watch here or listen to the full ep 👉https://t.co/6Q50CJQCeq

[DataCamp @DataCamp]

What is the key to crafting compelling data stories? 📊

@LeaPica joins @richierocks to cover the best practices for effective data presentation, from understanding your audience to leveraging "Hollywood" storytelling, and more.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/UtaEHXV7Ca

[DataCamp @DataCamp]

How do Fortune 1000 executives believe data and AI will shape 2024? 🤔

@RandyBeanNVP—business founder, CEO, author, and speaker—joins @richierocks to explore generative AI implementation, the shift towards data-savvy business leaders, and much more.

🎧👉 https://t.co/KRObVVrBck

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

Being able to develop generative AI applications is one of the most in-demand skillsets right now. Learn how, for free, with this series of 9 code-alongs.

[DataCamp @DataCamp]

Master career-accelerating skills.

Start now 👉 https://t.co/gyOGjursN7

🙏 Olivier Mertens, Korey Stegared-Pace, @jamescalam, Priyanka Asnani, Jacob Marquez, Vincent Vankrunkelsven, @alaradirik, and @richierocks.

[Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader]

I’m on this week’s episode of DataFramed! Catch me in conversation with Richie Cotton [@richierocks] from @DataCamp, covering misconceptions around data science, stereotypes associated with being a data scientist, what the reality of working in data science is, advice for those starting their career in data science, the challenges of being a data ‘jack-of-all-trades’ and much more.

The episode is now live on:

DataCamp: https://t.co/UGS7pdv9sN
Spotify: https://t.co/A0AnXHKPer
Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/M6deSI976N

…as well as a whole host of other listening platforms. Listen for my insights on making better decisions.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@ZachWeiner Wow, no one else has picked (D) and time-travel fantasies. I thought everyone had those.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@harchychy @DataCamp You're gonna want to come to this https://t.co/dfrcBszd2R

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@bernardo647 @DataCamp Got you covered tomorrow https://t.co/KF9nShWvsC

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@Timebringer @DataCamp Take the Machine Learning Scientist track https://t.co/5eLTECIM8m then our MLOps/DevOps courses (track coming later this year) https://t.co/5Uza4bq60E

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@bigmacdturtle @DataCamp That's useful feedback. Never quite sure how many people view cheat sheets onscreen vs. printing them. Let me chat to Design to see if anything can be done.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@ProfCelestine @DataCamp @patricklucey @StatsPerform For predicting the World Cup winner, you have to add in the rules of the tournament to your model. Here it will have a bigger efect, since 1 loss has a bigger effect on whether you make it past the group stage.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@ProfCelestine @DataCamp @patricklucey @StatsPerform If you are predicting individual matches, you'd use the result to update the team performance scores using something like Elo ratings, like we do in this post
https://t.co/8RU19DRdPR

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@olukoniseun @DataCamp I mean that if you wrote code, all you have to do is re-run your cleaning script with the new dataset. Clicking 'Run' is usually easier than redoing everything.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@olukoniseun @DataCamp If you can clean your data by writing code (rather than editing it by hand) then your life will be much easier when the dataset is updated and you have to do the cleaning process all over again.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@corontined @DataCamp The exercise is about the order that SQL executes the code, not the order you write it. The two things are different, and it's worth understand this difference to avoid writing buggy code. Hope this helps.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@DataCamp @FriendsTV Me: To write an S-Q-L query, you start with the Sequel command called SELECT.

[Richie Cotton @richierocks]

@M_B_Yaqub @DataCamp Two problems. You need to assign the result of your calculation to a variable named result, and you shouldn't have parentheses in the last line.