What to study if you’re under quarantine
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If you’re staying indoors more often recently because of the current COVID-19 outbreak and looking for new things to study, here’s a few ideas!
Free 365 Data Science Courses
365 Data Science is making all of their courses free until April 15. They have a variety of courses across R, Python, SQL, and more. Their platform also has courses that give a great mathematical foundation behind machine learning, which helps you a lot as you get deeper into data science. They also have courses on deep learning, which is a hot field right now.
In addition to pure data science, 365 Data Science also covers material on Git / Github, which is essential for any data scientist nowadways.
Another nice feature of 365 Data Science is that they also offer courses related to business intelligence tools like Tableau, thus giving a well-rounded grounding in data science.
Recommended R books
It’s never a bad time to learn more about R by reading books!
For a few suggestions (with reviews) check out this link.
Here’s some additional recommendations for R, Python, and Linux: Recommended Open Source Books.
Learn a new package
R has so many awesome packages that it’s great to spend time delving into one to learn its features. There’s the ever-popular ones like dplyr or data.table, but you can also check out ones such as MLmetrics for evaluating machine learning models, or tabulizer for extracting data from PDF files.
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