For Data Science Beginners

Set of Notes with links to help those who are Data Science Beginners

Blogs to Follow:

• Data Science Central
• KDNuggets
• Analytics Vidhya
• Data Science Plus
• R-Bloggers
• What are the best Blogs for Data Scientists to Read - Quora
• Cognitive class
• Simply Statistics
• Edwin Chens blog
• Deepmind Blog
• Dataversity Blog
• Yhat Blog

To Learn:

• ADVICE FOR ASPIRING DATA SCIENTISTS AND OTHER FAQS
• How to get your first job in Data Science? Tomi Mester Medium
• The most comprehensive Data Science learning plan for 2017
• LeaRning Path on R - Step by Step Guide to Learn Data Science on R
• Python Training | Python For Data Science | Learn Python
• Infographic - Quick Guide to learn Python for Data Science
• Minimalistic Learning Path to Become a Data Scientist

Videos:

• Introduction to R for Data Science | edX
• Data Science | Coursera
• Aspiring Data Scientist! Here are 8 free online courses to start
• Statistics and Data Science | Stanford
• Siraj Raval | Learn Python for Data Science

Github:

• GitHub - Developer-Y/cs-video-courses: List of Computer Science courses with video lectures.
• GitHub - JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks: Awesome online talks and screencasts
• GitHub - caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets: A topic-centric list of high-quality open datasets in public domains. By everyone, for everyone!
• GitHub - josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning: A curated list of awesome Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software.
• GitHub - ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learning: A curated list of awesome Deep Learning tutorials, projects and communities.

Hackathons/Competitions:

• Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science
• DataHack : Biggest Data hackathon platform for Data Scientists
• CrowdANALYTIX:A crowdsourced analytics platform to solve data-driven business problems
• http://www.topcoder.com/active-challenges/data/

Datasets:

• Data worldbank
• Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India
• http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
• Datasets | Kaggle
• r/datasets | Reddit
• Data World
• Data Sources - Jo Hardin - Pomona College

Podcasts:

• Partially Derivative
• Data Skeptic
• Linear Digressions
• R-Podcast
• Not so standard deviations

Libraries:

• Apache Singa
• Amazon Machine Learning
• TensorFlow
• Theano
• Torch

Communities:

• Reddit /r/DataScience
• Reddit r/rstats
• Reddit r/learnmachinelearning

Misc

• Git for Humans - Alice Bartlett [Video]

Videos

• Tetiana Ivanova - How to become a Data Scientist in 6 months a hacker’s approach to career planning