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Best way to start out in DS? #2

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

What do you think is the best way to get started in order to get in to this field? What would you say are the essentials everyone needs in this field?

jxnl commented 7 years ago

I'll open with two posts that are kinda related and I'll have more detail as subsequent comments.

quora: data science 1 - how to study

quora: data science 2 - getting started

jxnl commented 7 years ago

Tools

In terms of tools i suggest learning R and Python. Not one or the other, but really both.

Pick up tools like Pandas and Dplyr, seaborn and ggplot2. That should get you started just being able to manipulate and visualize data.

Seriously read Data Science in R at least.

While I don't think Kaggle competitions is a good place to learn data science, i believe the kernels are a great place to learn about code.

jxnl commented 7 years ago

Intro Mathematics

First I'd recommend Andrew Ng's Coursera Course on Machine Learning.

Book Recommendation

If I was to recommend one book it would be this it will take you from start to finish.

Elements of Statistical Learning

jxnl commented 7 years ago

Online Sources

I'd suggest using DataTau to find interesting articles and also find bloggers that you like to read.

jxnl commented 7 years ago

Secondary Book Recommendations

Facebook Analytics suggested these books so I'll pass them along too.

srcreigh commented 7 years ago

FYI "elements of statistical learning" is available online via UW library

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/find.php?sstring=elements+of+statistical+learning

srcreigh commented 7 years ago

actually here's a direct link. just click "read this book", then click university of waterloo, then log in.

http://books2.scholarsportal.info/viewdoc.html?id=/ebooks/ebooks0/springer/2010-02-11/1/9780387848587