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DataTalks.Club Community Involvement

Awareness and participation in DataTalks.Club activities and courses.

How DataTalks.Club Has Impacted Members

Confidence(51%)Practical / Production Skills(46%)Career Growth / Opportunities(34%)Community & Networking(29%)Learning Focus / Noise Reduction(26%)Hands-on Projects(26%)Keeping Up With New Tools / Trends(23%)Open Source Mindset(11%)Public Sharing / Learning in Public(11%)

51% say they got more confident, and 46% learned practical production skills. Career growth (34%), community connections (29%), and better learning focus (26%) are also big wins.

Skills & Domains Members Have Learned Through DataTalks.Club

49% learned Data Engineering, then ML (31%) and MLOps (29%). AI/LLMs and production practices (both 17%) show people are picking up the latest stuff.

Tools & Technologies Members Learned Through DataTalks.Club

Docker(17%)Airflow(11%)Terraform(11%)dbt(9%)PySpark(6%)GitHub(6%)Snowpark(3%)Temporal(3%)Pydantic / PydanticAI(3%)

Docker (17%) is the most mentioned, then Airflow and Terraform (both 11%). dbt (9%) and PySpark (6%) show people are learning the modern data stack.

Notable Achievements & Career Outcomes

Some people did really cool stuff, like career transformations (9%), freelance/professional wins (6%), and even publishing books (3%).

Member Testimonials: Direct Quotes About DataTalks.Club Impact

"You guys host the only free mlops course I can find"
"DataTalks.Club has pushed me to honestly get over my fear of sharing what I have learned in public"
"DE Zoomcamp allowed me to get hands-on experience with technologies I have never used before"

Real quotes from people about how DataTalks.Club changed their learning, boosted their confidence, and helped them get hands-on with new tech.

Awareness of Community Activities

93% know about our courses,we're basically an education platform. Webinars (72%) and workshops (64%) are also popular. We've got podcasts, competitions, and more, but the specialized stuff is less well-known.

Participation in Community Activities

78% of people who know about us actually joined in. Courses are the most popular (78%), then webinars (44%) and workshops (33%).

Course Participation

65% took Data Engineering Zoomcamp, our most popular course. ML Engineering (46%) is next, then AI Dev Tools (28%), MLOps (26%), and LLM (26%).

Planned Course Participation

48% plan to take Data Engineering Zoomcamp next year, with LLM Zoomcamp (38%) and AI Dev Tools (37%) also popular. People are still interested.