When I started to pivot my career towards data science, there was not a well-worn path from app developer to data scientist. In fact, I encountered more than a few naysayers when I started.
Now in 2019, there are multiple paths forward. Many require significant financial investment, but not all do. All require a fair bit of time commitment. Here’s a great compiled list of free resources.
In this Data Point, I explain why you should be playful with your data and judicious with your time in this unusually philosophical Data Point
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Can you create a tight jam that also teaches the fundamentals of AI and Machine Learning? Siraj Raval can and does in this jam.
Here’s an interesting talk from PyCon Germany by Joshua Görner, a Data Scientist at BMW.
From the video description:
Interactive notebooks like Jupyter have become more and more popular in the recent past and build the core of many data scientist’s workplace. Being accessed via web browser they allow scientists to easily structure their work by combining code and documentation. Yet notebooks often lead to isolated and disposable analysis artifacts. Keeping the computation inside those notebooks does not allow for convenient concurrent model training, model exposure or scheduled model retraining. Those issues can be addressed by taking advantage of recent developments in the discipline of software engineering. Over the past years containerization became the technology of choice for crafting and deploying applications. Building a data science platform that allows for easy access (via notebooks), flexibility and reproducibility (via containerization) combines the best of both worlds and addresses Data Scientist’s hidden needs.
Data Preparation is generally regarded as taking 80% of the resources for an advanced analytics project, but that so? What’s the difference between prepping and modelling data?
What is featurization and how does it fit in? All these questions and more will be answered in the show, we will even shock and wow Seth with some demos.
Python has quickly risen to be the top language for AI and Data Science. A few years ago, the question was “should I learn Python?” now it’s “How can I learn Python?”
Thankfully, here’s a great tutorial for beginners that’s thorough and free on YouTube.
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In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy talk with Micheleen Harris, an R developer who loves Python. Yes, it is possible.
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In this episode of Data Driven, Andy and I answer two questions sent in by listeners.
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