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karan1311 posted: " STEP ONE Math Track by Khan Academy Linear Algebra by MIT OpenCourseware Intro to Statistics by Udacity OpenIntro Statistics Machine Learning by Andrew NG(Stanford Online) Practical Machine Learning by John Hopkins(Coursera) STEP TWO Comp"
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The Steps to Become a Data Scientist

by karan1311
  • STEP ONE

Math Track by Khan Academy
Linear Algebra by MIT OpenCourseware

Intro to Statistics by Udacity
OpenIntro Statistics

Machine Learning by Andrew NG(Stanford Online)
Practical Machine Learning by John Hopkins(Coursera)

  • STEP TWO

Computer Science Fundamentals
CS5.0x on edX

End-to-end development

Language
Open Source: R, Python etc.
Commercial: SAS, SPSS etc.

Learn
R: Datacamp, try R
Python: Codecademy, Google class

  • STEP THREE

Databases
PstrgreSQL, CouchDB, Cassandra, MySQL, mongoDB

Learn
SQLzoo, MongoDB UniversityDataMonkey

  • STEP FOUR

Data Cleaning and Munging
Getting and cleaning data by John Hopkins(Coursera)
Tools (DataWrangler, R data.table dplyr)

Data Visualization Tools (ggvis, D3, Vega)

Reporting
tableau, Spotfire, R markdown

  • STEP FIVE

Level Up with Big Data
Hadoop
MapReduce
Apache Spark

  • STEP SIX

Kaggle: Compete

Meetup: Meet fellow data scientists

Have a pet project

Develop your intuition

  • STEP SEVEN

Into the real world
Internship, Bootcamp, Job

Companies
Amazon, zipfian, Twitter

  • STEP EIGHT

Sites to follow
DataTau
Kdnuggets
fivethirtyeight
datascience101
r-bloggers

People to follow
Hilary Mason
David Smith
Nate Silver
dj patil

Need Data?
Quandl

And, here you go... Gear up to be a Data Scientist!!!!!

karan1311 | September 17, 2015 at 8:42 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p5JOdg-bo

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