Dataquest is a data science bootcamp that offers career path courses (which can be completed in about 45 weeks), skill paths courses, and free introductory courses. Dataquest teaches through challenging exercises and real-world projects instead of video lectures in order to help students effectively learn the skills they need to build their career. Instructors are experts in the field, and Dataquest works with top organizations and instructors around the world to d...
Dataquest is a data science bootcamp that offers career path courses (which can be completed in about 45 weeks), skill paths courses, and free introductory courses. Dataquest teaches through challenging exercises and real-world projects instead of video lectures in order to help students effectively learn the skills they need to build their career. Instructors are experts in the field, and Dataquest works with top organizations and instructors around the world to develop their courses.
Dataquest was designed to help students without any experience become job-ready. Beginners are welcome to apply.
Dataquest uses hands-on, interactive coding challenges and projects to help students think and solve problems like a data scientist. Students work with real data from day one to build in-depth projects. Students will build a project portfolio that demonstrates their data skills. In the career path courses, Dataquest teaches students everything they need to start a new career, including earning a path certification by completing a capstone project. In the skill paths courses, students can quickly add in-demand skills to their resume, and gain confidence by completing real world exercises and projects.
When I started to learn Data Science more and more I realized how much breadth of knowledge is necessary.
I don't have a CS degree background and have been doing data analysis and BI development in the last 3 years but that gives me only SQL and a few proprietary BI language, however to be a good performing data scientist technically is required a lot of knowledge across various areas and I soon felt lots of gaps, hence the reason I embarked in the Data Science Python path.
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When I started to learn Data Science more and more I realized how much breadth of knowledge is necessary.
I don't have a CS degree background and have been doing data analysis and BI development in the last 3 years but that gives me only SQL and a few proprietary BI language, however to be a good performing data scientist technically is required a lot of knowledge across various areas and I soon felt lots of gaps, hence the reason I embarked in the Data Science Python path.
By looking at the curriculum it was what I needed to fill those gaps like, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Command Line, Git besides the core Pandas, Matplotlib and Machine Learning.
Regarding the content I think I hesitated not having videos, because I am very visual learner, but in the end was the BEST think for me, because as you take the course you are forced to get your hands dirt and learn by doing through repetition.
The platform is awesome, the explanation, graphics and examples are very well done and start simple and progress to more challenging exercises pushing you to learn a lot.
I am impressed with me how much I progressed.
The community is very supportive and the forum and chat help a lot and also gives you opportunity to help others as you become more knowledgeable with experience.
I push to finish the total curriculum in 2 months and it was worth it. There is progress % and completion which keeps track of your hours and completion. I set a weekly target of 20h a week and it was the best thing I did.
I recommend buying the monthly subscription as it pushes you to finish early and move on to the next thing and to practice. I know that if I signed up for the year procrastination would kick in.
Point of improvement is only one. The IDE can be VERY VERY VERY Slow to the point of irritate you and your progress only gets recorded if you use their online IDE. The Jupyter Notebooks integrated in the platform works fine. As fast as local, but the "IDE" to complete the exercises suck big time.
Despite all that, I high recommend.
I am learning at dataquest, data science track. I have just finished basic python programming and some way to intermediate python programming and going forward to finish the data science track. The way dataquest is delivering the lessons are based on the principles of learning by doing, no videos or ppts. The learners are interacting with the content through coding. So far, from what I have seen, the missions are based on real life problems. For these real-life problems and challeng...
I am learning at dataquest, data science track. I have just finished basic python programming and some way to intermediate python programming and going forward to finish the data science track. The way dataquest is delivering the lessons are based on the principles of learning by doing, no videos or ppts. The learners are interacting with the content through coding. So far, from what I have seen, the missions are based on real life problems. For these real-life problems and challenges they give us a guideline to go through and I believe this is the best way for adults like me to learn.
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Being a Biomedical Scientist, I am currently looking for a career transition where I can be more involved in data driven projects with ML and other cutting edge technologies. My first concern is that I have no background in coding or any data analysis experience with any programming languages. After looking into several online courses about data science, I felt that Dataquest provided the most comprehensive curriculum. What I liked the most about it is that everything I need to know (from ...
Being a Biomedical Scientist, I am currently looking for a career transition where I can be more involved in data driven projects with ML and other cutting edge technologies. My first concern is that I have no background in coding or any data analysis experience with any programming languages. After looking into several online courses about data science, I felt that Dataquest provided the most comprehensive curriculum. What I liked the most about it is that everything I need to know (from basic python, to pandas, ML, statistics, SQL etc.) is set into a logic order into learning paths. This makes the learning experience much more enjoyable as I don't have to worry about knowledge gaps or what skill to learn next.
Their interactive platform allowed me to learn by doing coding exercises in python myself, which is indeed much better (atleasy from my perspective) than watching Pros as they do all the coding. Basically their teaching method consists in explain a concept with diagrams and examples and then make you apply it on ongoing projects. This helped me develop agility writing code and familiarity with Python's backend logic. In addition, they provide challenges and projects where you can test your skills.
Possible improvements:
There are some features that they could add. First, I wish they did some summaries at the end of each module, as it helps students to review as they practise. This is something they seem to be currently working on, as the first couple modules do come with summaries. Hopefully they will have these recaps made for all modules very soon. In their blog, I have also found some cheat-sheets that contain the most used methods and formulas for packaged like numpy and pandas, which is very handy when doing projects.
I also wish they had videos every now and then. Sometimes, reading all the explanations and diagrams can become a bit boring and tiresome, so in my opinion having some demonstration videos would make the platform so much better, specially videos on "do-along projects" where instructors do projects as they explain their thinking logic.
All in all, I recommend this platform to anyone who is looking to get started into data science or related fields. Their members are very helpful, honest and quick to reply enquiries.
I've been on my way to become a data scientist since for a couple of years now. I've been studying on many sites, took several courses on Coursera and even on Udacity. While overall quality of those online courses are pretty much satisfying, I never had a feeling that what I've learnt is enough, so I kept delaying applying to job interviews as data scientist.
What I find great about Dataquest is that this platform is extremely versatile, packed very densely with information and hav...
I've been on my way to become a data scientist since for a couple of years now. I've been studying on many sites, took several courses on Coursera and even on Udacity. While overall quality of those online courses are pretty much satisfying, I never had a feeling that what I've learnt is enough, so I kept delaying applying to job interviews as data scientist.
What I find great about Dataquest is that this platform is extremely versatile, packed very densely with information and have great opportunities to practice skills that I feel is important to practice. The whole process is semi-self-paced (you are setting your own pace and try to keep up with it, or do not engage in such stuff at all), and I could skip all topics that I already knew (e.g. the basics of Python).
The most important part of studying here is so called "Guided Projects". In those projects I was able to explore various topics on pretty much real data in Jupiter Notebooks, the whole process of going through those projects is absolutely gorgeously structured. In every project I've done for now I felt like I was doing real data science.
For now I'm not finished yet, but judging by the content that I've completed already and the content ahead I think it would be my last data science course before I'll actually build up enough knowledge to go to a job interview as a real data scientist.
If you are a beginner in data science, this is the best place to start your journey towards a wonderful career. Data is the new oil. And by learning Data Science from Dataquest will make sure that you will have a thorough foundation to pursue this career. Now let me get this straight, There is no course on the internet that is going to teach you everything about data science. And that is because data science is a really vast field. It would take years to b...
If you are a beginner in data science, this is the best place to start your journey towards a wonderful career. Data is the new oil. And by learning Data Science from Dataquest will make sure that you will have a thorough foundation to pursue this career. Now let me get this straight, There is no course on the internet that is going to teach you everything about data science. And that is because data science is a really vast field. It would take years to become expert in it.
What Dataquest does best is that it makes sure that their students have a thorough foundation in data science. That is, if you learn from Dataquest, you will be ready to take on the toughest data science course on the internet. And why is that? It is because unlike other websites, Dataquest never goes easy on their students to make sure that their students develop problem-solving skills which are very crucial in data science.
The best part is the Dataquest community. A very active helping community. No matter what problem you are facing in data science, most of the time you will get a thorough solution from the community. I can assure you that after going through their course you will be completely satisfied with the knowledge you have attained.
How much does Dataquest cost?
The average bootcamp costs $14,142, but Dataquest does not share pricing information. You can read a cost-comparison of other popular bootcamps!
What courses does Dataquest teach?
Dataquest offers courses like Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist.
Where does Dataquest have campuses?
Dataquest teaches students Online in a remote classroom.
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