| program | cost | 好处 | 坏处 |
| Udacity Machine Learning | ~6month,~$1500 | 1.Go over each topic in Machine Learning in Video and have homework has to be finished and will be rated by real people.
2. Has career coach program has 1/2 real person coaching session every 2 weeks. I got huge help from the coach who helped me get my first Data related resume ready. And he encouraged me and mock interviewed with me before each interview. | Not many referral positions. |
| The Data Incubator | ~3month
~$15000 | has to be in person where you have 10ish people to study together and tutors on-site to watch you study each day.
Has some "connections" but not many job opportunities | Not recommended |
| JiuZhang | ~2month
~$800 | Quickly summary the algorithm problems with certain structure can be followed. Have ~6 topics which are high frequency problems | The teacher sometimes are not well prepared, not in much details, have to spend a lot of time to understand by yourself |
| Laioffer | ~5month
~$7000 | Similar to Jiuzhang, but tutoring session | I heard the teachers are rude. And a lot of topics are not covered in $7000 program |