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Learning Data Science from home in 2020

Przemek Chojecki
3 min readMar 28, 2020

Staying at home during these unprecedented times can be a great motivation to learn something new. If you’re looking to make a career shift, now is the moment to learn new skills and look for new projects. Data Science might be a perfect opportunity for you.

Data Science courses on Coursera to try in 2020. IBM Data Science and John Hopkins data science course.

Data Science is practical. It’s all about learning to code, downloading data and analysing new datasets until you get what you’re doing.

The first step however is to learn some theory. You’ll need a little knowledge of statistics and linear algebra, but you can pick it up along the way.

Then comes Python (or R sometimes). That’s the language you have to be comfortable with, but don’t worry, that will come with time and exercises.

Where to start learning Data Science?

There are 2 courses on Coursera which take you from zero to hero and are the most popular right now when it comes to Data Science. One is from IBM and the other from John Hopkins University, and both will give you an amazing exposure to basics concepts in Data Science.

IBM Data Science

This Professional Certificate from IBM is intended for anyone interested in developing skills and experience…

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Przemek Chojecki
Przemek Chojecki

Written by Przemek Chojecki

AI & crypto, PhD in mathematics, Forbes 30 under 30, former Oxford fellow.

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