Research: Russia has become a leader in technology and data analysis

From a study of the educational platform Coursera, it became known that Russia is recognized as the most

highly qualified country in the fieldtechnologies and data analysis. The country is a leader in software development, statistical programming, data management and operating systems. Russia's competencies in technology and data analytics are defined by the study as “advanced and competitive.”

As the authors of the work note, Russia teaches someof the world's most talented software engineers. The country regularly participates in international programming competitions, ahead of both China and the United States. At the same time, Russia produces more engineering professionals than any other country - more than 450 thousand per year.

“Coursera Research Once Againconfirms that the strongest mathematical school in the world has been formed in Russia. This became possible thanks to strong mathematical training in schools, as well as large-scale cooperation between Russian IT companies and leading universities. For example, Yandex has opened its technology partnership programs at MIPT, HSE, ITMO, and St. Petersburg State University, which train specialists in machine learning and data analysis. ShAD has been preparing the strongest experts in data analysis for 13 years. Half of all top machine learning specialists in Russia are ShAD graduates. And since 2019, Yandex.Praktikum has been helping to train personnel for the IT sphere ”

Elena Bunina, CEO of Yandex in Russia

The study also notes that “Russianstudents demonstrate an advantage in computer science knowledge over US students. " The authors of the text believe that students' technical skills are then developed through a career-oriented curriculum in higher education.

Partner of the educational platform Coursera inRussia is the company "Yandex". They have already launched three joint programs - on data analysis, big data and programming. At the same time, the machine learning specialization created by Yandex in partnership with the Higher School of Economics (HSE) became the first online course in Russia to receive the annual Coursera award. Over the entire period, more than 150 thousand students around the world have registered for the Advanced Machine Learning specialization.

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