Follow your own gut, but investors/buyers don't care how great your platform is. You have no IP so they can pay someone to build another version. Investors and buyers purchase users.
Get a lot of users on your platform and then consider selling.
That being said, codecademy and code school are both model templates that you could use to turn this into a business if you'd like that route.
You can also find hacker schools teaching data science (such as iron yard - http://theironyard.com/academy/python-engineering/) and see if they'll be willing to add your curriculum to their pre-course requirements. You might be able to get them to have students help build our your curriculum as part of their course projects.
Any kind of media coverage (such as fast co, popular science, etc) will help garner attention and users.
If you are able to get access to current sports data (nba, nfl, baseball, etc) and are able to help teach data science around those data sets you could probably get a lot of motivated but non-cs educated users and media coverage. That is also a feature you could probably charge a subscription for. I'm shooting ideas from the hip, so take them and turn them into something that is more familiar with your background.
Whatever direction you choose to take dataQuest, talk with your potential users and get their feel. Make a decision to move in a direction that'll have minimum push-back with maximum achievement of your desired goals.
Focus on user growth and you'll garner the attention of affluent individuals.
Good-Luck and let me know if you need any help or someone to bounce idea's off of!
Follow your own gut, but investors/buyers don't care how great your platform is. You have no IP so they can pay someone to build another version. Investors and buyers purchase users.
Get a lot of users on your platform and then consider selling.
That being said, codecademy and code school are both model templates that you could use to turn this into a business if you'd like that route.
You can also find hacker schools teaching data science (such as iron yard - http://theironyard.com/academy/python-engineering/) and see if they'll be willing to add your curriculum to their pre-course requirements. You might be able to get them to have students help build our your curriculum as part of their course projects.
Any kind of media coverage (such as fast co, popular science, etc) will help garner attention and users.
If you are able to get access to current sports data (nba, nfl, baseball, etc) and are able to help teach data science around those data sets you could probably get a lot of motivated but non-cs educated users and media coverage. That is also a feature you could probably charge a subscription for. I'm shooting ideas from the hip, so take them and turn them into something that is more familiar with your background.
Whatever direction you choose to take dataQuest, talk with your potential users and get their feel. Make a decision to move in a direction that'll have minimum push-back with maximum achievement of your desired goals.
Focus on user growth and you'll garner the attention of affluent individuals.
Good-Luck and let me know if you need any help or someone to bounce idea's off of!