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A collection of 11 posts

Motivation Jan 08, 2019

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?

Charlie Custer Charlie Custer
Motivation Nov 20, 2018

Forget Motivation and Double Your Chances of Learning Success

One of the most difficult parts of learning anything (including data science) is staying motivated. But there's something more powerful than motivation.

Charlie Custer Charlie Custer
Motivation Oct 22, 2018

Does Sharing Goals Help or Hurt Your Chances of Success?

So you’ve decided you want to learn data science. Will sharing your goals help? Here's what psychology has to say.

Charlie Custer Charlie Custer
Motivation Feb 08, 2018

Fixing Education: Motivation and Freedom

People learn better when they learn what they want to, on their own terms. We believe motivation and freedom are key to education—learn more in this post.

Vik Paruchuri
Jobs Aug 14, 2017

How to Get Your First Job as a Data Scientist

Learn the secret to getting a data science job, even if you have no experience.

Josh Devlin Josh Devlin
Jobs Apr 30, 2017

How to become a data scientist

Learn how to become a data scientist without taking 10000 courses.

Vik Paruchuri
Motivation Jan 05, 2017

The Six Elements of the Perfect Data Science Learning Tool

Learn about the key elements that the ideal data science learning tool should have to help you get a job, and what we're doing to incorporate these elements.

Vik Paruchuri
Motivation Nov 10, 2016

I barely graduated college, and that's okay

The story of how I taught myself Data Science and became inspired to build Dataquest.

Vik Paruchuri
Student Success Stories Oct 04, 2015

How Dataquest helped Patrick Nelli, VP of Corporate Analytics at Health Catalyst

Learn how Dataquest user Patrick Nelli improve his understanding of data in his role as VP of Corporate Analytics.

Srini Kadamati Srini Kadamati
Motivation Jul 13, 2015

Learn Data Science With Dataquest

The data science skills gap means that many people are learning or trying to learn data science. But where do you start?

Vik Paruchuri
Motivation Feb 08, 2015

Learning data science: A better way

From recent college grads who want to branch out, to marketers looking to be more quantitative, to startup founders wanting to develop algorithms, it seems like everyone these days is interested in data.

Vik Paruchuri
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