Level 3: Expert
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What is the RMDS Progression System?
The RMDS Progression System uses certification level (junior data scientist, senior data scientist, expert data scientist) to track your growth as a data scientist on RMDS. Along the way, you’ll earn badges for your achievements. By participating in different activities that are specified in the category of expertise below, you can earn credits accordingly, which will be calculated automatically to determine your current certification level.
Activities to Earn Credits
There are a wide range of activities available for you as a RMDS community member to earn credits and to progress in your level of certification.
When you join the RMDS expert portal, your role in the platform upgrades to RMDS expert, which unlocks more opportunities to deeply engage in the RMDS community via activities such as teaching, publishing and mentoring.
As an RMDS Community Member
Professional Education Activities and Conferences
RMDS has a well-established online data science learning platform (learn.grmds.org) and offers a diverse selection of self-paced learning courses, educational webinars, conferences, seminars, workshops, and related activities. Depending on the length of the activities, you will earn at least 1 credit for attending a single-time event (e.g., webinar, seminar) and 2-5 credits for the activities that require a longer commitment. Start earning your credits now at https://learn.grmds.org/
Participation in RMDS Competitions
RMDS offers quarterly competitions that focus on solving real problems via data science. All participants who completed a solution can earn 2 credits, and participants who win awards can get their credit doubled to 4 credits. View current and upcoming competitions at: https://grmds.org/competition/Post-COVID-California-Property-Price-Trend-Prediction
Becoming a Project Impacter
RMDS Project Impacter Program (PI Program) is designed to help those interested in Data Science and AI to develop their skills and prepare them for a successful career. The program offers a variety of roles and responsibilities that PIs can undertake based on their knowledge, interests, and professional goals. Projects typically range from three to six months and qualified members who pass the performance review will receive 5-10 credits depending on their workload. Start earning your credits now at https://grmds.org/careers/pi-program.
Sharing your Data Science Projects in the Portal
RMDS encourages data professionals to share their projects and learnings with each other by uploading projects, data sets and more to the portal on grmds.org. Qualified projects will be selected and given credits for their impact and usefulness. Each recognition will be given 2 credits. Start earning your credits now https://grmds.org/resources.
Providing Technical Service to Community Members
RMDS platform allows community members to interact with each other, especially through point exchange service. Services that are qualified for credits include: Project Advice, Data Review, Algorithm Review, Code Review, Workflow Review, Model Review, Report Review, Result Evaluation, Pre-processed Data Exchange or Purchase. By providing support to other community members' data science projects, members can earn 2 credits for each service. Start earning your credits now at https://grmds.org/rmds-points.
Campus Ambassador
RMDS invites everyone to grow and enhance the community by becoming a data science ambassador. Activities include but are not limited to sharing data science knowledge, inviting people to join the platform and organizing data-relevant events. Ambassadors typically participate on a given project for three to six months and qualified members will be able to receive 5 –10 credits for the work.
As an RMDS Expert
Teaching/Lecturing/Presenting
These activities include the development and delivery of professional educational presentations as well as self-study/distance education courses related to the certification’s domains. Instructors will be given credits - two times the credits of students taking the courses/events/lectures. Start earning your credits now at https://grmds.org/rmdslab-expert-portal.
Publishing
RMDS collaborates with publishing partners such as Taylor & Francis Group and Packt Publishing to offer RMDS experts exclusive opportunities to publish articles and books. Each publication that is generated through RMDS network will be given 5-10 credits depending on the workload. Start earning your credits now at https://grmds.org/call-for-submissions.
Mentoring
This activity includes mentoring efforts directly related to coaching, reviewing, or assisting with data science work or providing career guidance to community members at RMDS Lab. Experts who perform a one-hour mentoring session will earn 1 credit. Start earning your credits now at https://grmds.org/mentorship-program.
Review and Evaluation
This activity includes the data science review and evaluation work done by the experts for programs such as data science competitions and data scientist certification programs. Experts will be given 2 credits for a single review and evaluation assignment.
Certification Levels
Earning credits allow you to progress within the RMDS certification system. This comprehensive data science certification system evaluates and certifies data scientists at various levels, per their learning, knowledge, skills, and practical experience. See below for the three levels of RMDS data scientists.
All credits earned from different professional activities in the category of expertise will be reorganized into 5 dimensions. See below for the comprehensive table.
User Role:
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Dimension
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Category of Expertise
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Activity
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| Data Science Fundamentals | Professional Education Activities and Conferences | Finish an Online Course/ Deep Dive Program |
| Data Science Fundamentals | Professional Education Activities and Conferences | Attend a Webinar |
| Data Science Fundamentals | Professional Education Activities and Conferences | Attend the Conference |
| Data Science Solutions | Competition | Submit a Solution to the competition |
| Data Science Solutions | Competition | Win an Award at the competition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Impacter | Engage in a data science project |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Project Portal | Upload a project in the portal which is qualified for the project recognition |
| Data Science Practice | Technical Service (Point System) | Result Evaluation |
| Data Science Industry Development | Campus Ambassador | Become an RMDS campus ambassador |
Below is the requirement for the certification of three-level data scientists
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# of Credits Needed for Certification
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Data Science Fundamentals
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Data Science Skills and Tools
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Data Science Solutions
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Data Science Practice
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Data Science Industry Development
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 Level 1: Junior |
10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
 Level 2: Senior |
20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 |
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20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
Badges
MEMBERS
Administration
Admins have full access to all platform features enabled for an organization and administrative tools
Organizational Premium Partner
Organizational Elite Partner
Project Impacter
Utilize data science and AI to develop skills in hands-on projects and prepare for a successful career. Learn more.
CONFERENCES
IM Data 2021 Attendee
Admins have full access to all platform features enabled for an organization and administrative tools
IM Data 2021 Instructor
Provide support to the RMDS team, vital for the smooth running of the platform. Learn more.
IM Data 2021 Keynote Speaker
Experts in their respective field that accomplished significantly in the world of AI and data.
IM Data 2021 Featured Speaker
Bright industry professionals in numerous data science and technical fields to talk about innovative methods in data science, machine learning, and AI.
CERTIFICATIONS
Level 1 - Junior
Professional who can perform a wide range of appropriate skills as a contributing professional with assistance/supervision.
Level 2 - Senior
Professional who can perform independently and take responsibility for delivery of solutions as lead professional.
Level 3 - Expert
Professional who has significant breadth and depth of impact on the business through the application of their profession.
Project Recognition
Make an impact solving real-world problems in data science.
TRAINING
Applying Machine Learning to Create a Web-based Realtime Forecasting System
AI, Bias & Surveillance - Recognition, Analysis & Prediction
AI & Ethics - Bias, Diversity and Ethical Decision Making with AI Systems
Financial Technology, Cryptocurrency & AI
Everything About Chatbots: A Hands on Journey
Facebook Ad Analysis Using Python
Creation of Specialized AI Assistant for Healthcare Industry
Deep Dive Instructor
COMPETITIONS
2021 Post-COVID California Property Price Trend Prediction: Judge
2021 Post-COVID California Property Price Trend Prediction: Contestant
Professional who can perform independently and take responsibility for delivery of solutions as lead professional.
2021 Post-COVID California Property Price Trend Prediction: Winner
2020 COVID-19 Computational Challenge:Winner
