How to Make Your Data Science Job Application Stand Out
What can you do to make your data science job applications stand out and get hired as a data scientist? Here are some high- and low-risk strategies.
Data Science Project: Profitable App Profiles for App Store and Google Play
Learn to do a complete data analysis project using only basic Python to find out what genre of apps an app developer should focus on.
Dataquest: Rated Switchup’s Best Online Data Science Bootcamp
Should you enroll in an online data science bootcamp or try one of the expensive offline schools? Here’s how your options stack up when it comes to learning data science.
Learn Data Cleaning in R
Data preparation and cleaning is about 80% of a data scientist’s job. Learn to do it effectively and efficiently with R in our new free online course.
The Best Strategies for Overcoming a Challenge
Learning something new is going to be frustrating from time to time. This study suggests some of the best ways to push past that and succeed.
A Year Learning Data Science at Dataquest
What can you learn in a year of studying data science at Dataquest? Python, SQL, statistics, and an awful lot more.
Curtly: “Dataquest changed my life”
How learning data science and Python with Dataquest helped Curtly Critchlow solve a massive Excel problem at his job.
Learning Python for Data Science the Right Way
Last week, we launched a totally revamped version of our introductory Python course. Now, we’re doing the same for our intermediate Python course. Say hello to Python for Data Science: Intermediate! The new course is available now, and just like the introductory Python course, it’s completely free. This course has been carefully designed to build […]
Tutorial: Time Series Analysis with Pandas
In this tutorial, we will learn about the powerful time series tools in the pandas library. Originally developed for financial time series such as daily stock market prices, the robust and flexible data structures in pandas can be applied to time series data in any domain, including business, science, engineering, public health, and many others. […]
Learn Python for Data Science from Scratch
It’s virtually impossible to succeed at anything without a solid understanding of the fundamentals. That’s why we take particular care in ensuring that our introductory courses, the gateways to data science, are as well-crafted as possible. Today, we’re announcing the re-launch of our introductory Python course, Python for Data Science: Fundamentals. It’s available right now, […]
The Right Kind of Internal Motivation Can Improve Your Studies
You probably already know that internal motivation is more powerful than external motivation. But did you know that the type of internal motivation could matter when it comes to unlocking better performance? Learning data science can be a slog. At Dataquest, we try to make it as easy and fun as possible, but there’s no […]
Tutorial: Advanced Jupyter Notebooks
you’re doing data science in Python, notebooks are a powerful tool. This free Jupyter Notebooks tutorial has will help you get the best out of Jupyter.
9 Reasons Excel Users Should Consider Learning Programming
Microsoft Excel could be the single most popular piece of software in the business community. Released over thirty years ago, Excel is still used every day in countries across the globe to store, manipulate, and analyze data. It’s so widely used that becoming an Excel wizard can be a significant boost to your earnings. But […]
How Miguel Got 3 Data Science Job Offers Fast With Dataquest
Miguel Couto’s data science story begins with rejection. “I got this really dry email saying, ‘Hi Miguel, just to let you know, we’re not giving you the scholarship.’” Miguel said. He had applied for a scholarship to a prestigious but expensive data science bootcamp in Berlin. And despite his qualifications, which include a PhD in Material […]
The Key to Getting a Data Science Job, According to Briana Brownell
Briana Brownell knows a thing or two about data science. Before founding the data analytics and machine learning firm Purestrategy.ai, she worked with a variety of companies from startups to Fortune 500 firms on marketing and analytics. She’s also worked on a variety of cool data science and machine learning projects, doing things like teaching […]
Historic Wildfire Data: Exploratory Visualization in R
In recent weeks, news of the devastating wildfires sweeping parts of the US state of California have featured prominently in the news. While most wildfires are started accidentally by humans, weather conditions like wind and drought can exacerbate fires’ spread and intensity. Improved understanding of historical wildfire trends and causes can inform fire management and […]
An Intro to Deep Learning in Python
Deep learning is a type of machine learning that’s growing at an almost frightening pace. Nearly every projection has the deep learning industry expanding massively over the next decade. This market research report, for example, expects deep learning to grow 71x in the US and more than that globally over the next ten years. There’s […]
Learn to do Data Viz in R
One of the reasons that R is a top language for data science is that it’s great for data visualization. R users can take advantage of the wildly popular ggplot2 package to turn massive data sets into easily-readable charts in just a few lines of code. That can be incredibly valuable for presenting your data, […]
Math in Data Science
Math is like an octopus: it has tentacles that can reach out and touch just about every subject. And while some subjects only get a light brush, others get wrapped up like a clam in the tentacles’ vice-like grip. Data science falls into the latter category. If you want to do data science, you’re going […]
How to Gather Your Own Data by Conducting a Great Survey
In this post, we’ll learn to create an online survey and how to prevent some common mistakes made in surveys. We’ll cover all steps of the survey process, including: Selecting a population Sampling methods Making a data analysis plan Writing good questions Distribution options Data Scientists know that even the slickest code, the best data […]