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Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

I think the easiest and surest thing to learn is SQL. There’s an inordinate number of good jobs that will pay you for the relatively straightforward skill of understanding how to get data out of a database. I’m baffled by how many well-paid data analysts I know whose first contact with SQL was two weeks before their job interview.

Python and R enable you to do bigger stuff, but you’ll forget them very quickly if you don’t use them. Also they’re just much harder.

That said if work is paying for it, you might as well get a whole-rear end data science degree. You can take them online at places like Berkeley and Michigan. Georgia Tech is inexpensive and good, in case cost matters. You’ll learn all of the above stuff — and more — from an actual degree program.

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