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Questions tagged [beginner]

For questions which concern getting started in Data Science or any of its related subdomains.

Some good beginner resources for getting started in Data Science are:

  1. Data Science wiki of Quora

Some good beginner resources for getting started in Machine Learning are:

  1. Professor Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning
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Tips for a new data scientist

I am about to start a job in which I will be working with large datasets and will be expected to find trends, etc... I have found lots of resources on where to learn ML and other hard skills and feel that I am (semi) competent on this end. I am…
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Measuring Value in Data Science?

Why does it seem that it's difficult to find out how people in data science create measurable value? All I find on the internet are buzzwords like data cleaning, visualization, and writing about the data. This is equivalent of describing a…
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Which technologies and skills should the new generation of data scientists learn?

Having looked at various job requirements, I see that a lot of them require you to be an expert in Hadoop, use Spark but I am wondering how useful are these technologies (due to my lack of understanding)? It seems that whatever I need to do, I…
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What could be the value of having a business analyst in a data science team?

Correct me if I am wrong, but while business analysts are often an important role in software delivery teams, but it seems not the case in the data science field. Commonly available data scientist skill sets state also importance of story-telling…
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Approaching data science

I'm totally naive to Data Science - that is, the relatively new, somewhat hyped-field that is so popular at the moment. But I'm not naive to data ... as a scientist and researcher I've worked with all sorts in different roles in the past. Now I'm in…
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Compute utility of a notification

I have no idea whether this is the right StackExchange flavor to post this question in, but here goes: I have an agent (an IRC bot that listens to an event stream) that I would like to add "intelligent notifications" to. Let me give a specific…
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Getting into data science and NLP outside of university

I'm almost 40. Four months ago I resigned from work to rest from stressing work and change my carerr direction. It took me some time to understand what I want to do and only then I started to learn NLP and machine learning through Coursera and…
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Is Mac OS the most suitable OS for a beginner Data Scientist?

As far as I understand a data scientist should learn both Excel and Bash. And the golden mean is this case is Mac OS, because it has both. And later I can install Ubuntu on Macbook.
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How to get started?

I am currently working as a registered nurse, but I have decided that I can no longer do this as a career. I was essentially forced by my parents to go into the health field. After doing research on many career fields, I believe that a career as a…
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String classification beginner question

I analyse log files, very often there are strings that only differ on few places and are same every where else, I am trying to find the generic string that they most likely belong to e.g. : UHGUYGUYGUYGUY id = U1234 UYAG*&^T*#@G*(&G@ id2 = 8767…
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Beginner in programming and data science with 100 hours to spend learning the basics

I started using the below link to teach myself data science, with some mathematical knowledge (including calculus, linear algebra, stats/probability) but very little programming experience: Quora - Roman Trusov's answer on how to learn Data Science…
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How to dive into data science quickly?

I'm new here - I hope this kind of question is legit. I have a background in mathematics - my field is probability theory, where I am quite strong (top 2% of University). I have little experience in programming but I guess I get things done once I…
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