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.
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 […]
Forget Motivation and Double Your Chances of Learning Success
One of the most difficult parts of learning anything (including data science) is staying motivated. At first, we’re excited about our new studies, and we progress quickly through the basics. But over time, as the work gets more challenging and other problems and pressures arise in our lives, it gets easier and easier to fall […]
Does Sharing Goals Help or Hurt Your Chances of Success?
So you’ve decided you want to learn data science. Should you share your goals on social media or with an accountability buddy? Or should you work in silence until you’ve learned enough to call yourself a data scientist? Psychology research suggests that sharing your goals may have an impact on your chances of actually achieving […]
Fixing Education: Motivation and Freedom
Public education, at least in the US, only ever exposes you to one way of learning—top-down hierarchy, and assignments. While some people thrive in this environment, I am not one of them. After college, I was thrown into the world with a 2.1 GPA, no real skills, and no idea of what to do next. […]
How to Get Your First Job as a Data Scientist.
Many aspiring data scientists focus on doing Kaggle competitions as a way to build their portfolios. Kaggle is an excellent way to practice, but it should only be one of many avenues you use to work on data science projects. This is because Kaggle competitions only focus on a narrow part of data science work. […]
How to become a data scientist
Data science is one of the most buzzed about fields right now, and data scientists are in extreme demand. And with good reason — data scientists are doing everything from creating self-driving cars to automatically captioning images. Given all the interesting applications, it makes sense that data science is a very sought-after career. Data science […]
The Six Elements of the Perfect Data Science Learning Tool
When I launched Dataquest a little under two years ago, one of the first things I did was write a blog post about why. At the time, if you wanted to become a data scientist, you were confronted with dozens of courses on sites like edX or Coursera with no easy path to getting a […]
I barely graduated college, and that’s okay
I didn’t do very well in high school. My grade point average was around a 2.5 out of 4. I did well in some subjects that I was interested in, like math, computer science, and history, but everything else was a wash. The less homework a class required me to do, the better my grade […]
Learn Data Science With Dataquest
Data scientists are in high demand, with compensation in this field averaging upwards of $100,000 in San Francisco. Learn data science and you can become one of the lucky, well-compensated professionals filling the current gap in this field. Start learning for free The first step to learning data science is usually asking “how do I […]
Learning Data Science: A Better Way
How do I learn more about data science? What can I do to start analyzing data? Where do I get started with machine learning? I constantly hear these questions and other variations. The people that ask them and their backgrounds are just as varied as the questions themselves. From recent college grads who want to […]
