Online Learning Curriculum for Data Scientists

By Shane Lynn. At my workplace, I get asked the question above. The question is usually posed by people typically with a finance background, who’s working as a management consultant. In this post I propose a learning path for such people to “get into data analysis”.  I will assume that the prospective student someone with decent Excel skills, not afraid of a VLOOKUP or a touch of VB, and can throw together decent plots / dashboards using the same Microsoft package, but has little or no knowledge of programming / command line operations. A data scientist can be defined by Drew Conway‘s Data Science Venn diagram which suggests that data scientists must have a solid mathematical background, skills in coding and computer hacking, and a healthy mix of subject matter expertise. More...