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“A data scientist is someone who’s better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.”
Data Science Core Skill Sets
There are many different routes through Data Science; depending on your interest, you can specialise in one area or learn broadly from many of them. Here are the resources that we have curated so that you can begin learning about each data skill set.
Core Data Skill Sets:
Mathematics (Statistics, Probability, Linear Algebra)
Programming
Machine Learning
Data Skills (Databases, Warehousing, ETL)
Big Data
Data Visualisation
Need to brush up your statistics knowledge before diving into data science?
Khan Academy is an excellent free platform with all the material you need. Here are the most important segments: if you follow this curriculum from start to finish you will be best prepared to enter the field as a junior data scientist.
Mathematics:
Introduction to Probability and Data - Duke University
Beginner, 25-35 hours, free
Statistics 101 - Udacity
Beginner, 10-20 hours, free
Linear Algebra - MIT
Undergrad~40 hours, free
Khan Academy
Beginner, free - Part of Umuzi Data Science curriculum
Programming:
DataCamp
Intro to Python for Data Science
Intro to R for Data Science
Intermediate R
Intermediate Python
US$30 per month
Learn Python - Code Academy
Beginner, 10 hours, free
Data Quest - data focused python
~40 hours depending on track, free
Machine Learning:
Machine Learning - Udacity
Beginner, 65 hours, but independent topics possible, free
Machine Learning Nanodegree - Udacity
Intermediate,6 months 10h/week, US$1,230
Machine Learning - Coursera by Stanford University
Beginner, self-paced, 180 day access, free/US$79 with certificate
Data Skills:
MongoDB basics
Beginner,5 hours, free
Learn Cassandra
Beginner, 8 hours, free
SQL: Analyzing Business Metrics - Code Academy
Beginner, 10 hours, free
Big Data:
Introduction to Big Data - UCSD
Beginner, 15 hours, US$49/Month
Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce - Udacity
Beginner, 4 hours, free
Big Data Analysis with Scala & Spark - EPFL
Beginner, 40 hours, free
Data Visualisation & Reporting:
Learning Tableau - Tableau
10 hours, beginner, free, video based
Data Wrangler
2 hours, beginner, free
Redash Visualization
2 hours. Beginner, free