Rick Scavetta has worked as an independent workshop trainer, freelance data scientist and co-founder since 2012. Operating as Scavetta Academy, Rick has a close and recurring presence at primary research institutes across Germany. His online courses at DataCamp have been taken by over 200,000 students since 2016 and he's also contributed to advanced data science courses for O'Reilly and Manning. Rick currently serves as the technical curriculum advisor to the Misk Academy in Saudi Arabia and heads the development of their Data Science programme.