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What do you need to know to get into Data Science as a Beginner?

Pushpa Sree Potluri on December 04, 2019

Data Science is a combination of Programming & Statistics, so to be a data scientist you need to have knowledge of at least one programming lan...
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SIMON DODSON

without formal training, look at the metrics that matter most to your task/EBITA/time, and find a way to improve this metric. etc, uitilise the tools that are accessible to you, g sheets is fine, if you can learn to move business units you're valuable ...

this is a fun and fast an easy way to get into data metrics

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Saeed Ahmad

Pushpa I have completed Data Science Courses from DataCamp and IBM but due to being an Electronics grad, I am unable to find a Data Science Job. What do you suggest to me?

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Pushpa Sree Potluri

Focus on showing your skills to employers. Build a portfolio of real-world projects to prove your competency. Hope it helps!

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Saeed Ahmad

Thanks.

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Jennifer Bradford

Do you know of any degree programs that teach the skills needed to get into data science?

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Dom

Check out coursera or edx. Both offer online masters degrees in data science from top universities, without the requirement of having a CS background.

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Pushpa Sree Potluri

I'm not sure of any degree programs that you can attend, but udacity have some great nanodegree programs udacity.com/school-of-data-science if you like! I hope it helps!

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Manda Putra • Edited

"diagnose the problem"

what kind of problem? Do data science encounterm