What Is Data Science & How To Start? | A Beginner's Guide

As someone working in data science, I often get questions about the space and how to get into it. Here, I give my take on what data science is, and my tips for aspiring data scientists.

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Intro - 0:00
Disclaimer - 0:30
What is data science? - 1:00
Role 1: Data engineering - 1:56
Role 2: Data analytics - 2:40
Role 3: Data science - 3:34
Role 4: ML ops/engineering - 5:04
Role 5: Data management - 6:20
Final note - 7:14
How do I start? - 8:01
Tip 1: Get "technical" grad degree - 8:27
Tip 2: Learn the basics - 10:02
Tip 3: Do it - 11:24
Closing remarks - 13:30

[ifycadeau]

I’ve always wondered about how data science works! Thanks for breaking it down 👏🏾👏🏾 and congrats on your journey!

[aaronbarbosa]

i was here before this reached 1 million views

[mootal]

Data analyst and data scientist have very closely overlapped roles. It depends on the job profile and company/environment.

[Nalber]

I would like to colaborate with people that are used to machine learning. As chemist I'm very interested on AI and want to do something like that in my PhD