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How to Break into Data Science

This year, I finished a bootcamp and immediately landed a job doing deep learning. If I had to go back and learn everything by myself, here’s what I would study.

Nicole Janeway Bills
Towards Data Science
8 min readAug 7, 2020

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When it comes to learning data science online, these recos represent the best, mostly free resources I’ve run across in the three years I’ve been training on Python, analytics, and productionizing machine learning models. A data scientist should be a great programmer, a decent analyst, and a reasonably good engineer. You also need a rock solid understanding of statistics — for that, there’s ESL.

To learn everything else, let’s get started.

Disclaimer: this post is in no way sponsored, nor does it represent views of anyone but myself. Sling your arrows this way if these recommendations don’t work out for you.

Python has quickly grown into the lingua franca of machine learning. It’s outpaced R and offers abundant packages for…

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Nicole Janeway Bills
Nicole Janeway Bills

Written by Nicole Janeway Bills

Founder of datastrategypros.com where we help busy professionals ace the Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) exam and other data-related exams.

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