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What are good ways to get started with data science for a complete novice?

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Here are some points I could come up with, that would be a good path for someone who is starting their journey in Data Science -

  1. Before getting started, browse which career path interests you and what are the differences between those. Say for Eg: Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Scientist, etc.

  2. Now you have to choose which programming language to go with - Python or R or both. In my opinion, it would be better to follow one language at a time and complete learning.

  3. Learn the basics of that programming language and get well versed to write functions and code for any operation.

  4. Now you can start learning the basic libraries for Data Science for the same. Say for Eg: Numpy, Pandas, matplotlib for Python.

  5. Exploratory Data Analysis is a major part of Data Science. Hence you can stress for the Data Visualisation part and along with that go learning basics of Statistics and Probability. You can take online courses for each of these small topics or go for youtube videos.

  6. Now you can jump right into Machine Learning with different modeling approaches and model evaluation techniques and so on.

  7. Supplementing your knowledge by joining Kaggle competitions and working on datasets that interest you.

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