# Learn Data Science for Business ## Become a Data Scientist in our online courses Earn 6 figures or more in 6 months or less by learning R, Shiny, Machine Learning, Time Series, Web Apps, AWS, Cloud, and more! 5-10 Hours Per Week. 80/20 Skills. End-To-End Business Projects. [Start Your Courses Now! 👉](https://university.business-science.io/p/5-course-bundle-machine-learning-web-apps-time-series?el=website) Join over 100,000+ Data Scientists # From No-Shiny Experience to Deploying My First Shiny App in 3-Months _Written by Matt Dancho_ * * * Creating decision-making applications is a value-driver of data science teams in large organizations. Here's an inspiring use-case from one of our students & how data science education helped. _“Hello Matt, I just wanted to let you know that I have just completed the DS4B 102-R Course and the final challenge of building my first App. It is a Forecasting App that runs on top of its own database consisting of 24M records and utilizing two xgBoost models.”_ -Herbert McCalla, Business Analyst with Florida Power & Light **Herb McCalla has developed a business decision-making application** that helps his company, Florida Power & Light, understand battery demand and predict battery failures for their fleet of over 7800+ batteries deployed across Southern Florida. Here’s a snapshot of the application he built as his work project while completing the [DS4B 102-R Shiny Dashboards Course](https://university.business-science.io/p/ds4b-102-r-shiny-web-application-business-level-1). Battery Demand Forecasting Application used to predict Florida Power & Light Battery Usage & Failure ## Herb used data science to provide actionable information A key component of adding value to an organization is by providing actionable information. The application forecasts battery demand/usage and highlights batteries with charge so Florida Power & Light can optimally deploy their resources. Predicting Bad Batteries (State of Charge of 60% or less) Herb developed a Shiny Application that contains 2 XGBoost Machine Learning Models: - One model is used to forecast Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) battery usage demand - The second model predicts each battery’s State of Charge (SOC) in our fleet of over 7,800+ batteries deployed in the FPL service territories around southern Florida The application is no small feet: - The app runs on top of a Florida Power & Light database of 24M records - The machine learning model takes about 20-hours to run, making a prediction for each of the 7800+ batteries in the fleet ## What Did Herb Learn Through Business Science? Herb is enrolled in the [4-Course R-Track](https://university.business-science.io/p/4-course-bundle-machine-learning-and-web-applications-r-track-101-102-201-202a/). He has completed both the 101 (R for Business) and 102 (Shiny Predictive Dashboards) courses. In 101, Herb **learned the foundations of data science** including data wrangling, visualization, and machine learning. These skills directly translate to the data analysis needed for his Florida Power & Light Battery Demand Forecasting project. In 102, Herb learned how to create a **predictive Shiny Dashboard**, which was used to make the Battery Demand Forecasting application. Herb has successfully applied his data science learnings to his Florida Power & Light Battery Prediction Project. Congratulations Herb!!! ## What does Herb have to say about his data science education? _“Call Matt Dancho with Business Science. This was fun and incredibly challenging.”_ -Herbert McCalla ## Learn to Apply Data Science to Business The secret to landing a job in data science - **SHOW THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE BUSINESS VALUE**!!! This is what I teach - **Business-First (Problem Solving)** using Data Science. If you are committed to learning data science for business, then Business Science University will give you the tools, strategies, and processes to **unlock financial value for your organization**. The 4-Course R-Track System will help you, just like it helped Herb McCalla develop a decision-making application for Florida Power & Light. Complete your transformation in 6-months or less with our [4-Course R-Track System](https://university.business-science.io/p/4-course-bundle-machine-learning-and-web-applications-r-track-101-102-201-202a/). ## See what our students are doing: ### Student Success Stories Real stories of success from our students applying their skills learned at [_Business Science University_](https://university.business-science.io/) to get jobs and help their organizations! - **[How I Landed My Data Science Job](/content/business/2019/11/27/how_i_got_my_data_science_job.html) \- Masatake Hirono, Cognitive Analyst at Deloitte** - **[Apply Data Science to Improve Addiction Treatment](/content/business/2019/11/11/data-science-improve-addiction-treatment.html) \- Z. Du, Senior Financial Analyst at Turning Point Clinic** - **[How I got a 40% Raise with Data Science Education](/content/business/2020/04/13/increase-salary-data_science.html) \- Mohana Krishna Chittor, Data Scientist at Money View** ### Student Code Tutorials Tutorials made by our students using their new skills learned at [_Business Science University_](https://university.business-science.io/)! - **[Customer Churn Modeling using Machine Learning with parsnip](/content/code-tools/2019/11/18/parsnip-churn-classification-machine-learning.html) \- By Diego Usai, Data Science Consultant** - **[Web Scraping Product Data in R with rvest and purrr](/content/code-tools/2019/10/07/rvest-web-scraping.html) \- By Joon Im, Analyst at Instacart** - **[PDF Scraping in R with tabulizer](/content/code-tools/2019/09/23/tabulizer-pdf-scraping.html) \- By Jennifer Cooper, Marketing Data Scientist** - **[Build An R Shiny App - Wedding Risk Model](/content/business/2019/06/09/Wedding-Risk-Model-App.html) \- By Bryan Clark, Data Scientist at Dashlane** Thank you for reading this Business Science Success Stories. I love to share how our students are applying their learning. Matt Dancho Founder, Business Science Lead Data Science Instructor, Business Science University # Become a 6-Figure Data Scientist We've helped thousands of students become 6-figure data scientists. ## Make 6-figures. Launch your career. And become a Data Scientist! [Start Your Classes Now! 👉](https://university.business-science.io/p/5-course-bundle-machine-learning-web-apps-time-series?el=website)