Data Science

Learn Data Science in 10 Steps

The Ultimate Roadmap for Starting Your Data Science Journey

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I get asked quite often on my YouTube channel (Data Professor) the following questions about how to break into data science:

• How to become a Data Scientist?
• What is the roadmap to being a Data Scientist?
• What courses should I take to learn Data Science?

So I thought that it would probably be a great idea to write an article about it. And so, here it is. It should be noted that the 10 things that I wish I knew about learning data science is based on my personal journey as a self-taught data scientist. The thing is if I could turn back time and advise my 22 year old self about learning data science, then these are some of the things that I would like to say.

I started my data science journey back in 2004. It was a time when the term data science was in its infancy while the more widely used term was data mining. In was not until 2012 that the term data science started to gain traction and propelled itself to mainstream popularity as made possible by the Harvard Business Review article entitled Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century by Thomas Davenport and D.J. Patil.