IITM-incubated One-Fourth Labs launches affordable data science course

The course is priced at Rs 1,000; top performers will be invited to 'summer garage,' an AI residency programme at IIT Madras Research Park

One-Fourth Labs, a start-up founded by two faculty members of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) and incubated in the institute, has launched an online self-paced course on foundations of data science, at an affordable cost.

The course, priced at Rs 1,000 for students and faculty members, has been launched under the company's online school platform ‘PadhAI’, which also means the path in Tamil. The start-Up has been founded by Mitesh Khapra and Pratyush Kumar, Assistant Professors in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.

While there is rising demand for trained data scientists across the manufacturing sector and