The Best Free Books for Learning Data Science
If you want to learn data science, the most important thing you can do is get your hands on some real-world data and start coding. Our learning platform helps you do exactly that. But what can you do to keep learning data science when you’re not sitting in front of a computer? A student we […]
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 […]
11 Design Tips for Data Visualization
Here’s an important fact that’s easy to forget: our data is only as helpful as it is understandable. Most of the time, that means creating some kind of data visualization. And while a simple bar graph might cut it for internal work, making your data both visually understandable and visually attractive can help it get […]
Top 20 Python AI and Machine Learning Open Source Projects
Getting into Machine Learning and AI is not an easy task. Many aspiring professionals and enthusiasts find it hard to establish a proper path into the field, given the enormous amount of resources available today. The field is evolving constantly and it is crucial that we keep up with the pace of this rapid development. […]
A Data Science Project Style Guide
Employers usually give a lot of weight to a candidate’s portfolio when hiring for a junior data science role. Although you may be capable of technically impressive projects, your job hunt will suffer if you don’t pay enough attention to the stylistic aspects as well. A busy employer is not going to review poorly constructed […]
What’s New in Dataquest v1.85: Takeaways, Intermediate R, and More
We’re always working on ways to help you learn and keep you motivated — from new features, to celebrating student stories. In this post, we give you a quick overview of what we’ve released recently, and what’s coming up. Takeaways Programming is comprised of many small actions and concepts, and it can be hard to […]
Python Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
The tough thing about learning data is remembering all the syntax. While at Dataquest we advocate getting used to consulting the Python documentation, sometimes it’s nice to have a handy reference, so we’ve put together this cheat sheet to help you out! This cheat sheet is based on Python 3’s documentation on regular expressions. If […]
Data Science Terms and Jargon: A Glossary
Getting started in data science can be overwhelming, especially when you consider the variety of concepts and techniques a data scienctist needs to master in order to do her job effectively. Even the term “data science” can be somewhat nebulous, and as the field gains popularity it seems to lose definition. To help those new […]
Five Essential Traits of a Data Scientist
Trillions of pixels have been deployed to answer the question ‘What makes a good data scientist?’ Most of these articles have focused on skills and tools of data science while almost none have discussed the personalities that make good, even great, data scientists. A Google search for “data science skills” returns 38 million results; ‘data […]
Python Cheat Sheet for Data Science: Intermediate
The printable version of this cheat sheet The tough thing about learning data is remembering all the syntax. While at Dataquest we advocate getting used to consulting the Python documentation, sometimes it’s nice to have a handy reference, so we’ve put together this cheat sheet to help you out! This cheat sheet is the companion […]
Python Cheat Sheet for Data Science: Basics
It’s common when first learning Python for Data Science to have trouble remembering all the syntax that you need. While at Dataquest we advocate getting used to consulting the Python documentation, sometimes it’s nice to have a handy reference, so we’ve put together this cheat sheet to help you out! This cheat sheet is the […]
The Tips and Tricks I used to succeed on Kaggle
I learned machine learning through competing in Kaggle competitions. I entered my first competitions in 2011, with almost no data science knowledge. I soon ended up in fifth place out of a hundred or so in a stock trading competition. Over the next year, I won several competitions on automated essay scoring and bond price […]
NumPy Cheat Sheet — Python for Data Science
NumPy is the library that gives Python its ability to work with data at speed. Originally, launched in 1995 as ‘Numeric,’ NumPy is the foundation on which many important Python data science libraries are built, including Pandas, SciPy and scikit-learn. It’s common when first learning NumPy to have trouble remembering all the functions and methods […]
Pandas Cheat Sheet — Python for Data Science
Pandas is arguably the most important Python package for data science. Not only does it give you lots of methods and functions that make working with data easier, but it has been optimized for speed which gives you a significant advantage compared with working with numeric data using Python’s built-in functions. It’s common when first […]
NumPy Tutorial: Data analysis with Python
Don’t miss our FREE NumPy cheat sheet at the bottom of this post NumPy is a commonly used Python data analysis package. By using NumPy, you can speed up your workflow, and interface with other packages in the Python ecosystem, like scikit-learn, that use NumPy under the hood. NumPy was originally developed in the mid […]
28 Jupyter Notebook tips, tricks, and shortcuts
This post is based on a post that originally appeared on Alex Rogozhnikov’s blog, ‘Brilliantly Wrong’. We have expanded the post and will continue to do so over time — if you have a suggestion please let us know. Thanks to Alex for graciously letting us republish his work here. Jupyter Notebook Jupyter notebook, formerly […]
7 Great Data Science Newsletters to Keep You Informed
In a fast-paced and rapidly growing industry like data science, keeping up is essential. Knowing what is trending is essential in helping you know what new tools to learn, to help you get a job, and much more. At the same time, there is so much content out there that it can be hard to […]
