Data Science - a DIY approach
Everybody wants to become a data scientist but given the huge number of tools and techniques that are available no one really seems to know where to start and how to go about acquiring the right skills. image taken from http://www.rosebt.com In the process of teaching data science to students at the Praxis Business School I have realised that there is a huge amount of information that is freely available on the web and thanks to Google, one can find this information very easily. If one is motivated enough, one can learn data science on his own. In an earlier post I have given a very broad Introduction to Data Science but in this post, that I plan to update every now and then, I have tried to assemble a collection of tutorials, grouped by topic that will help anyone get a good grip on this subject by actually doing something practical. R : Statistical Programming Language Forget about SAS, SPSS and other proprietary languages that want to extort money from you and simply...