How to be a

DATA SCIENTISTin

4*2 steps

math & statistics

substantive expertise

hacking skills

machine learning

traditional research

danger zone

Here’s DATA SCIENCE!

Data scientists are better than…

…software engineers in Statistics

…statisticians in Software engineering

STEP 1

Improve at stats, math & machine learning

STEP 2

Learn to code

Grasp end-to-end development

Choose a first language

Learn interactively

STEP 3Understand databases

Get savvy with

MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra etc.

Learn databases intimately

STEP 4Master data munging, v isual izat ion & report ing

STEP 5Level up with Big Data

Distributed processing is the key!

USE - Hadoop MapReduce Apache Spark

s e e w h a t d a t a l o o k s l i ke !

STEP 6Meet (other) data sc ient is ts

Practice makes perfect!

Join competitions

Meet fellow data scientists

Have a pet project

Sharpen intuition

STEP 7Intern, bootcamp or get a job

Take the bull by the horns!

Best way to find out if you’re cut out for data analytics & science

Intern or bootcamp

Get hired!

STEP 8Join the community

Share more to learn more!

Sites -

DataTau Kdnuggets FiveThirtyEight Datascience101 R-bloggers

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DATA CAMP@DataCamp_com

You are now a

DATA SCIENTIST!

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