Scaler Academy has taken over the online coding website Coding Elements in a cash deal of about $1 million, its cofounder Abhimanyu Saxena said. The firm was in talks with Coding Elements for about a month as it was offering a data science course to its users, Saxena said.

“The need for data science is increasing very fastly. But there is a vacuum in terms of training plans which prepare people for jobs like data scientists. We could have added a data science course to our platform in other ways as well, but purchases are the best way to quicken the journey,” he said.

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Saxena also said Coding Elements founder Mudit Goel has an excellent background in data science and will lead the way for Scaler. Scaler Academy helps working experts upgrade their skills and expand their particular careers. More than 7,500 people have joined Scaler’s educational programmes.