RESOURCES

Data Science Blogs

  • Towards Data Science — Towards Data Science is a Medium content aggregator of written content related to data science and machine learning, including tutorials, news, and career tips.
  • Dataquest Blog — Our data science blog has helpful tips, tutorials, other resources on the fields of data science, data analytics, and data engineering.
  • Data.world blog — Data.world a great source for user-supplied data sets, but the site also has a useful blog with interviews with industry figures, tips, and other great content.
  • FiveThirtyEight — FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics, and lifestyle. If you want to see what really compelling data storytelling looks like, this is a great source.
  • Priceonomics — Priceonomics uses business data to tell stories, which is a skill any professional data scientist or data analyst needs. This blog provides a great source of inspiration.
  • Information is Beautiful — Information is Beautiful is a blog dedicated to posting incredibly well-designed data visualizations in the form of charts and infographics. If you aspire to improve your data visualization skills, their work is absolutely worth studying.
  • R Bloggers — An aggregator/syndicator of great R content from all over the web.
  • R Weekly — A weekly curated list of great R-related content

Practice & Competitions

  • Hacker Rank — Practice your coding skills to prepare for technical interviews.
  • HackerEarth — Participate in programming challenges, and improve your programming skills. We’re currently running a HackerEarth challenge you can sign up for right here.
  • Kaggle — Participate in data science challenges to hone your data science skills and constantly improve them.

Career Resources

  • Data Science Career Guide — An exhaustive seven-part guide to navigating the data science job hunt, from how to start your search all the way through how to negotiate a great salary.
  • The Muse — The Must publishes career advice articles on topics from designing your resume and cover letter to finding the best positions for your skill set.
  • Glassdoor — Glassdoor allows you to look up how past and current employees view a company, look up salary data for a company, and see potential interview questions.
  • Indeed — Indeed is a giant job board, but they also have searchable data resources on career-related topics like salaries. It’s a great place to look up, for example, what the average data scientist makes in your city.
  • G2Crowd — Crowd reviews of many data science learning platforms as well as data science software solutions. They also have a learning hub that contains some good career advice.

Data Science Events

  • PyCon — PyCon hosts several Python conferences each year in multiple countries.
  • PyData — PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a nonprofit charity promoting the use of accessible and reproducible computing in science and technology.

Books to Learn Data Science

  • Best Free Books for Learning Data Science — A blog post written by us that aggregates the best free books to learn data science.
  • Deep Learning — This textbook is designed to help machine learning practitioners get familiar with deep learning.
  • Natural Language Processing in Python — If you have an interest in NLP, this book is highly recommended for you to check out. This book is written to give you an overview of the NLTK library.
  • Intro to Statistics — This book is designed to give you a traditional introduction to statistics at the college level.
  • Hands On Machine Learning — Interested in Machine Learning and with a more “hands-on” approach? This book is a great introduction if you are new to machine learning or just want a refresher.
  • Think Stats — A book that will walk you through how to think about statistics as you program in Python or R.