Taeseong K.
4 answers
Bijan Shokrollahi
Bijan’s Answer
Data Science is very much an art of story telling. You need to be proficient in the technical side of Data Science ie getting familiar with R & Python, leveraging modules like pandas, matplotlib, etc. but also you need to tell the story of the data to non-technical audience and c level suite. Like others have said, don't underestimate the math side of things which are critical. I would recommend leveraging any free resources to develop your skills. Elon Musk has said that you can learn anything you want for free. There is a significant amount of information on the internet.
--Bijan
Heine Melo
Heine’s Answer
There are some very good courses from Coursera presented by universities like:
- Arizona State University
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Illinois
- University of London
https://www.coursera.org/browse/data-science
Some of those trainings you can learn for free.
Edx has some very good trainings also from: Microsoft, IBM, MIT, Harvard.
https://www.edx.org/course/subject/data-science
I recommend you to check the content and the feedbacks. With that you can filter what is best for you.
Vijayanand Ponukumati
Vijayanand’s Answer
All the answers by Heine & Mingze are relevant. I would also add that if you are in school, focusing on Math - Probability and Statistics and Linear Algebra, Vector Algebra is critical for being a good data scientist. Ofcourse, the programs on coursera.org are then building on top of that.
Good luck. this is a hot field, so the industry has a lot of demand for good data scientists.
Mingze Li
Mingze’s Answer
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