Claudia Gold, author of the Data Analysis Learning path on SlideRule, talks about why she wrote it and how to approach learning data science on your own. https://www.mysliderule.com/learning-paths/data-analysis/
11. Business Sense
• Ask the right questions
• Focus on actionable insights
•Gain subject expertise
12. Math & Statistics
Knowledge
Source: Adapted from
Data Science Venn Diagram,
author Drew Conway,
Machine
Learning
Data
Science
Traditional
Research
posted to Wikimedia on Sep 30, 2010.
Hacking Skills
Danger
Zone!
Subject
Expertise
13. Learning data science takes months,
not hours.
(and that’s assuming you already know some math)
20. How these tools might fit together
Website data
SQL
database
Customer
support data
Event
tracking data
R or
Python
Website
Predictive
models
Dashboards
and reports
Analysis
21. What is it really like
to 3 be a data scientist?
22. Source: Programmer writing code with
unit tests, author Joonspoon, uploaded
to Wikipedia on November 4, 2014
23. Working with other teams
Data
Science
Marketing
Product
Business
decisions
Data
products
Operations