Learning Data Science

A thoughtful approach for building your Data Science skills and portfolio.

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1. Learning Data Science
   A thoughtful approach for building your Data
   Science Skills
   Amit & Bargava
   

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2. Data Science as a Craft
   

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3. Art - Craft - Science
   

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4. craft | krɑːft
   noun: An activity involving skill in making
   or doing things by hand
   

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5. How do you learn a craft?
   

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6. Seek Inspiration
   

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7. Start with Basics
   

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8. Do Repetitions
   

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9. Conduct Deliberate
   Practice
   

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10. Focus on Mastery
    

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11. Learning Data Science
    Ten guides for skill building
    

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12. Shailii
    Understand your learning style.
    Choose the right approach - Hacker v/s Structured. Online v/s
    Classroom. Self-driven v/s Mentor-driven.
    

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13. Sangha
    Find your own community.
    Most of our learning happens through peers. Find a set of data
    science peers that you can engage with.
    

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14. Gunas
    Understand the basics.
    Start with learning the math & statistics needed. Build an
    intuition on how the algorithms & the libraries work.
    

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15. Prakerana
    Learn the data science process
    Grok the approach to problem solving with data - Frame,
    Acquire, Refine, Transform, Explore, Model & Insight.
    

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16. Abhyaas
    Practice, Practice, Practice.
    Repeat the data science process multiple times on different
    types of problems.
    

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17. Ruchi
    Do projects that interest you.
    Pick from work domain, sports, economics, public policy etc. You
    are more likely to stick through the arduous journey of doing it.
    

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18. Pradarshan
    Create a public profile.
    Share what you do so people can connect with you. Create a
    public portfolio on Github or a blog or website.
    

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19. Pratikriya
    Get Feedback.
    Put your work out there. It could be a small analysis,
    visualisation, a mini-library. Nothing is too small to share.
    

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20. Rachit
    Create a Data Science Portfolio.
    Work on at least 6 - 8 different projects over the next 1 year to
    build a portfolio of projects across topics.
    

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21. Laaya
    Find your own rhythm.
    Build and do something every day, week or month. Find your
    own cadence and start creating.
    

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22. Advice for Beginners
    

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24. Amit Kapoor
    @amitkaps
    amitkaps.com
    Bargava Subramanian
    @bargava
    

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