Udemy is a great place to learn how to be a Data Scientist. It’s got courses on everything you need to learn – statistics, R and Python, Machine Learning, Data Visualisation and all sorts of other stuff. Better still, it has frequent sales, so you’ll often find courses that would cost thousands of dollars in a University for only 10 £/$/Euro. By carefully choosing the…
Big Data is the future, and it’s right here, right now! Except that it isn’t… There’s no doubt about it that Big Data is a powerful discovery tool, but all too often when you analyse a lot of data, you end up with a lot of results – too many, in fact, to be able to hold them…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning are all the rage in the press these days, and if you want to be a good Data Scientist you’re going to need more than just a passing understanding of what they are and what you can do with them. There are loads of different methodologies, but for me I would always suggest Artificial…
Programming isn’t easy, especially if you’re just getting started. If you’re coming into Data Science having started as a programmer, then it’s not too bad, but if you’re making the transition from one of the sciences or from statistics, then it can be a tall task. I started out as a physicist and sort of accidentally became…
Programming is one of the most important aspects of being a Data Scientist – it’s sort of like the glue that binds together the statistics, artificial intelligence, the visualisation, and so on. It’s not easy, though, especially if you’re just making the transition to it. On the other hand, there are some programming languages that are easier to learn…
If you didn’t know it yet, statistics is really important in science and society. It used to be used mainly for hypothesis testing, but in these days of Data Science, Big Data and the Internet of Things it’s being used just as much for making discoveries and formulating new hypotheses. Until just a few short years ago biology was a data-poor discipline, but since The Human Genome…