Tell me about learning data science / data analysis

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Shats Basoon: Jun 13, 2013

I would suggest a long-term project you can spend a couple hours a week tinkering around with to build your skills. Find a data source with an API connection you can connect to, integrate your script with Github and build a dashboard or something with visualizations you can produce as an end product to take with you in interviews. Do the same thing with an SQL database connection. Get good at explaining what you are doing to people who don't have domain experience. There are probably things at work you can automate too.

Try not to use ChatGPT. Not saying it can't be a good tool but as you're learning it is more of a crutch to stand on you don't need.

R for Data Science is a solid book. Posit has a lot of good resources
https://r4ds.had.co.nz/

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