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Dataquest
Company blog · dataquest.io/blogdataprogrammingcareer
Dataquest is the company blog at dataquest.io, writing about data, programming and career. Since 2015, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 98 times, most often “How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
98% of learners recommend Dataquest for learning Python, R programming, SQL, data engineering, data science, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-07-23
- /3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-09-16
- Comparing 7 Python data visualization tools3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-13
- Building a data science portfolio: Storytelling with data3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-10
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-21
- Code Academy for Data Science2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-20
- Learning Curves for Machine Learning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-04
- How to learn data science2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-16
- Introduction to machine learning using k-NN and Airbnb data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-10
- Generating Climate Temperature Spirals in Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-21
What Hacker News says?
You can check out these 2 sites with practical exercices: https://www.dataquest.io https://campus.datacamp.com I've also seen this free online Stanford course recommended a lot: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/about
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on “SQL: One of the most valuable skills”Submitted How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco as a story · 366 points
HN discussionWe're aiming to do this at Dataquest (where I work). Essentially create a complete learning path from 0 to job ready. Data Scientist path - https://www.dataquest.io/path/data-scientist Some of the projects peppered throughout the track: https://www.dataquest.io/projects EDIT: Forgot to mention, almost every lesson uses a real dataset!
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on “How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming”Submitted Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis as a story · 283 points
HN discussionI'm involved with a startup that's specifically tackling this very problem -- how do you learn the theory & application of machine learning quickly (especially if you already know programming well). We teach using diagrams and interactive coding exercises in the browser: www.dataquest.io If you already know Python, you could dive straight into machine learning ( https://www.dataquest.io/course/machine-learning-funda…
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on “Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI?”Submitted How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python as a story · 267 points
HN discussionThis is something we're striving hard to do at the startup I'm involved with (end-to-end resources for learning machine learning, with just high school math background assumed). In our Data Scientist Track ( https://www.dataquest.io/path/data-scientist? ), I specifically focused on teaching K-nearest neighbors first b/c it has minimal math but you can still teach ML concepts like cross-validation, and then I wrote L…
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on “Learning Math for Machine Learning”Submitted How to learn data science as a story · 248 points
HN discussionDataquest | San Francisco, CA | Data Engineer | Full-time | Onsite or Remote At Dataquest ( https://www.dataquest.io ), we're building the future of online education. Most online learning has turned into "let me throw up a bunch of videos and call it a course". We help people actually learn and demonstrate their skills (we're all self-taught). Our paths take people from zero coding knowledge all the way through to g…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Learn data science in your browser as a story · 244 points
HN discussionDataquest | San Francisco, CA | Data Scientist| Full-time | Onsite or Remote At Dataquest ( https://www.dataquest.io ), we're building the future of online education. Most online learning has turned into "let me throw up a bunch of videos and call it a course". We help people actually learn and demonstrate their skills . Our paths take people from zero coding knowledge all the way through to getting jobs at companie…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Math in Data Science as a story · 153 points
HN discussionDataquest Labs | Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Remote | www.dataquest.io At Dataquest Labs, we teach data science interactively online to hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We're focused on teaching skills and building intuition from the ground up with our project based curriculum. Unlike most educational options, we focus on motivating students to learn, not just content delivery. We have students go f…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Cleaning CSV Data Using the Command Line and csvkit, Part 1 as a story · 21 points
HN discussionDataquest.io | San Francisco | https://www.dataquest.io | Onsite / Remote We're an early stage startup that teaches data science interactively in the browser. You learn by analyzing data and writing code; not by watching videos. We're all self-taught and passionate about helping others do the same. Our revenue is growing quickly, and we're looking for a couple of people to join our team: Data Scientist -- create les…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted Generating Climate Temperature Spirals in Python as a story · 12 points
HN discussionDataquest | SF | Director of Marketing | Remote, Full-time | $90k - $130k | https://www.dataquest.io At Dataquest, we teach data science interactively online to hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We're focused on teaching skills and building intuition from the ground up with our project based curriculum. Unlike most educational options, we focus on motivating students to learn, not just content delivery. W…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted Comparing 7 Python data visualization tools as a story · 12 points
HN discussionDataquest | San Francisco, CA | Remote or onsite | Full-time At Dataquest, we teach data science interactively online to hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We're focused on teaching skills and building intuition from the ground up with our project based curriculum. Unlike most educational options, we focus on motivating students to learn, not just content delivery. We have students go from no programming k…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”Submitted How to Be a Great Data Scientist as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCompletely agree with this. To really learn linear regression, you need to be comfortable with linear algebra (for OLS) and calculus (gradient descent). I actually wrote most of the machine learning content at Dataquest (where I work) and I started with k-nearest neighbors because it's way more approachable ( https://www.dataquest.io/course/machine-learning-fundamental... ). Little math, very visual, easy to program…
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on “Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch”Submitted Generating Climate Temperature Spirals in Python as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAlthough, there is no denying that this is a valuable resource but I have started to get turned off by a list of n books to learn something - they can be valuable but it is undeniable that they can also be overwhelming and perplex someone about how to get started. I believe technical books should be used to complement your knowledge of the field not to get started in it. For eg, "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" wil…
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on “Free Data Science Books”Submitted Comparing 7 Python Data Visualization Tools as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHey, I'm involved with a startup and we're aiming to just that -- provide a 0 to job-ready experience in machine learning. We're more of a paid, integrated experience than a repo with notebooks though. Here's our data science path - https://www.dataquest.io/path/data-scientist Every course has a project using real datasets - https://www.dataquest.io/projects
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on “Ways to think about machine learning”Submitted How to get into the top 15 of a Kaggle competition using Python as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI use http://dataquest.io and it works pretty well.
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on “Top-down learning path: Machine Learning for Software Engineers”Submitted Code Academy for Data Science as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIs there any way you could have this running on the cloud (in Digital Ocean or AWS)? Suppose you had Jupyter installed using the following process: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/digitalocean-docker-data-scien...
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on “Run code inline in Atom using Jupyter kernels”Submitted Jupyter Notebook for Beginners as a story · 5 points
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