Yassine Alouini

It’s All About the Projects: Yassine Alouini on Learning with Dataquest

Data Scientist @ Fieldbox.ai
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It’s All About the Projects: Yassine Alouini on Learning with Dataquest

Yassine Alouini

It’s All About the Projects: Yassine Alouini on Learning with Dataquest

Data Scientist @ Fieldbox.ai

Yassine Alouini, Data Scientist

There’s a right way and a wrong way to learn data science. Watching videos, reading tutorials, filling in the blanks or other forms of passive education can only take you so far. You might “know” data science afterward, but you won’t know how to apply it to anything.

That’s where projects come in. Over time, projects show you what you didn’t know you didn’t know, and the practice helps you memorize techniques and approaches that you need to be able to deploy on the fly to be a successful data scientist.

Dataquest learner Yassine Alouini, Data Scientist at Qucit, came by this knowledge honestly. Having freelanced and learned on his own prior to finding Dataquest, Alouini already knew the value of completing projects. But once he saw the interactive nature of the Dataquest platform, he was hooked.

One night I was looking for a new data science course, but I wanted something different from the usual MOOC experience, something different from the ‘You watch videos and then take challenges and tests’ one. I wanted something more interactive. I then came across Dataquest.

Learning with Dataquest

Dataquest’s projects offer a degree of specificity that even seasoned learners like Alouini might be missing.

Dataquest helped me to get a more in depth knowledge of data science subjects. For instance, I have been using Matplotlib for quite some time but never really understood the internals until recently. It has also helped me organize my thoughts and gain more confidence when working with data.

So, while you can earn on your own out in the wild, Dataquest can save you valuable time with custom curated paths, interactive courses, and real-world projects . . . all in one convenient package. You won’t sit and passively watch videos or read lengthy walkthroughs. You’ll learn code by writing code, just as Alouini says you should . . .

Data science is hard and it becomes harder if one only relies on theory. One must practice to become better at the trade. In fact, learning through projects is very rewarding. For each new project, you encounter new challenges (data in a bad format, correlated features, data that is hard to visualize, overfit algorithms, etc) and you immediately gain actionable insights.

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