SELF LEARNING
DATA
SCIENCE
IN 31 DAYS
SPECIAL EDITION
THE RESEARCH NEST COMPILED BY
Empowering Humanity With Exclusive Insights Aditya Vivek Thota
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THE RESEARCH NEST
PREFACE
With vast amounts of data being This unique booklet is intended to
generated in recent times, there is enable individuals for the same by
an ever increasing need for providing the best curated
professionals who can make any resources to learn and implement
valuable sense out of it: the data practical projects.
scientists. Today, with humongous
amounts of resources available
online, self-learning is not beyond
scope anymore.
THE PROJECT NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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Python.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
EXPLANATORY
01 ARTICLES
HANDS-ON
02 TUTORIALS
PRACTICAL INSIGHTS
03
DATA PREPARATION
PART ONE
"Data really powers everything that we do"
- JEFF WEINER, CEO, LINKEDIN
FINDING YOUR DATA
The first step is all about identifying what domain
you want to work in and finding the relevant
dataset. Data science starts with data collection
after all. Choose a dataset in your domain of
interest, download the same and get ready for
some action!
Below are some links, where you can find public
datasets in different sectors:
REFERENCE LINKS TO OBTAIN DATASETS
01 KAGGLE
UC IRVINE MACHINE
02
LEARNING REPOSITORY
A COMPILATION OF ALL
03
PUBLIC DATASETS ON GITHUB
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH YOUR DATASET?
Once you have your dataset ready, there are
broadly (but not limited to) three kinds of
applications you can build using the same. These
include prediction, classification, or
recommendation.
Apart from that, you can try to find hidden
patterns in the data. Have a good look at your
dataset and the variables in it. Identify what kind
of analysis it can be used for and finalize the
problem to tackle.
Is it classification, regression, or clustering
based? If your dataset appears inconclusive to
any of the above-mentioned categories, as a
beginner we would recommend you to change
your dataset and find a more relevant one.
SUBJECTS AND PRE-REQUSITES
Here is a comprehensive compilation of learning
resources you may need on your journey en-
route to becoming a data scientist.
While you may not need to know all of them in
detail to get started. Having a general idea of
these topics can prove to be extremely useful.
LINKS TO QUICKLY LEARN SOME KEY
CONCEPTS
FIVE BASIC STATISTICS CONCEPTS
01
DATA SCIENTISTS NEED TO KNOW
BASICS OF PROBABILITY FOR DATA
02
SCIENCE
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO LINEAR
03
ALGEBRA FOR DATA SCIENTISTS
04 CALCULUS IN DATA SCIENCE
DATA PRE-PROCESSING
Before one can start analyzing the dataset, one
needs to make some modifications to make it a
bit more programming friendly. Here are some
standard approaches used. Try implementing
these techniques as per relevance for your
chosen dataset.
TUTORIALS OF VARIOUS PRE-PROCESSING
APPROACHES
01 HANDLING MISSING VALUES
02 DEALING WITH CATEGORICAL DATA
03 NORMALIZATION OF DATA
04 DATA PRE-PROCESSING SUMMARY
EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS
PART TWO
“In God we trust. All others must bring
data.”
- W. EDWARDS DEMING,
STATISTICIAN
PERFORMING EDA
Once we have a detailed and clean dataset in
hand, we can do various statistical analyses and
visualizations to better understand our data.
Wikipedia has an entire page dedicated to EDA.
You can refer the same to get the overview of
what it is all about.
LINKS TO SOME USEFUL RESOURCES
COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO DATA
01
EXPLORATION
02 VARIOUS EDA TECHNIQUES
HANDS-ON KAGGLE TUTORIAL FOR EDA
03
USING PYTHON
04 WIKIPEDIA PAGE ON EDA
There are several libraries available in Python for
performing EDA. You can easily find one based
on your requirement and proceed further.
Once the data is thoroughly analyzed, we can
proceed to the next step of building some
predictive models using different techniques and
ultimately formulate a tangible application with
practical significance.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STATISTICS
BEHIND HYPOTHESIS TESTING, VISIT
THESE LINKS:
LECTURE SLIDES ON HYPOTHESIS
01
TESTING
YOUR GUIDE TO MASTER HYPOTHESIS
02
TESTING IN STATISTICS
CREATING PROBLEM STATEMENTS
PART THREE
"Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted."
- ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICIST
You have a clean dataset ready and doing an
exploratory data analysis should give a very clear
picture of what we can do with the dataset.
Choosing the right model for the situation can be
challenging for a beginner.
Based on your understanding, you can finalize to
use 2-3 methods and get ready to build your
model.
Here are two useful articles exploring basic
machine learning algorithms for data science and
the scenarios in which they are preferred.
TOP 10 MACHINE LEARNING
01
ALGORITHMS
CHOOSING THE RIGHT ALGORITHM
02
FOR YOUR DATASET
BUILDING YOUR MODELS
PART FOUR
"The goal is to turn data into information,
and information into insight."
- CARLY FIORINA,
FORMER CEO, HP
ESSENTIAL MACHINE LEARNING
With the dataset prepared and problem
statements formulated, the stage is all set to
build and train your models using various ML
methods.
Here are some must-read resources for any
aspiring data scientist summarizing almost
everything you need to know.
USEFUL REFERENCE LINKS
HOW TO APPROACH (ALMOST) ANY
01
MACHINE LEARNING PROBLEM?
IMPLEMENTATION OF DIFFERENT
02
MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
THE ULTIMATE KAGGLE TUTORIAL
03
FOR DATA SCIENCE
THE ULTIMATE KAGGLE TUTORIAL
04
FOR MACHINE LEARNING
ADDITIONAL HANDS-ON TUTORIALS
The following tutorials are for those interested in
further exploring the practical applications of
machine learning.
01 PREDICTING THE PRICE OF A HOUSE
SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION USING
02
HAND GESTURES
TEXT EMOTION DETECTION USING
03
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
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