Data Science Learning Path

Beginner

Overview

Table of Contents
● Overview
● Table of Contents
● Main Courses
○ 1. Programming with Python
○ 2. Data Analysis and Visualization with Tableau
○ 3. Introduction to SQL
○ 4. Probability and Statistics

Main Courses

1. Programming with Python

What will be Learnt

References

Sub Courses

MOOC
● Coursera Python for Everybody Specialization
●

Books
● Byte of Python [download]
● Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
● Dive Into Python 3
● Learning with Python 3
● Learn Python, Break Python
● Python for Informatics
● Python for You and Me
● Python Practice Book
● Python Programming Wikibooks
● Think Python 2nd Edition

Articles

Youtube

Practice by Yourself

a. Python Basics
Basic Competence
● Understanding basic syntax, operations, looping

Online Courses
Articles

b. Python Data Structures

Basic Competence
● Understanding string, list, dictionary, tuple, set, integer, float

Online Courses
Articles

c. Using Python to access database

Basic Competence
● Understanding how to access text data or xlsx data using python

Online Courses
Articles
 d. Basic visualization with Python

Basic Competence
● Able to visualize using matplotlib, searborn, etc

Online Courses
Articles

2. Data Analysis and Visualization with Tableau

What will be Learnt

Sub Courses

References

MOOC
● Tableau Free Training

Books

Articles

Youtube

Practice by Yourself
● Kaggle Python

a. Getting Started with Tableau

Basic Competence
● Understand Tableau interface and operations as well as steps in working with
Tableau
 Online Courses
Articles

b. Data Preparation

Basic Competence
● Understand how to import and join data

Online Courses
Articles

c. Visual Analytics

Basic Competence
● Understand visual analytics features such as filter, sort, group, trend lines and
how to build dashboards

Online Courses
Articles

d. Calculation

Basic Competence
● understand how to perform calculation in Tableau

Online Courses
Articles
3. Introduction to SQL

What will be Learnt

References

MOOC

Books

Articles

Youtube

Sub Courses

Practice by Yourself

a. SQL Basics

Basic Competence
● Understand how to select columns, filter row, do aggregation, sorting and
grouping

Online Courses
Articles

b. Advanced SQL

Basic Competence
● Understand how to join data and do calculations

Online Courses
Articles
4. Probability and Statistics

What will be Learnt

References

MOOC

Books

Articles

Youtube

Sub Courses

Practice by Yourself

a. Probability

Basic Competence
● Understand basic principle of probability
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Online Courses
Articles

b. Descriptive Statistics

Basic Competence
Understand the idea of mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and variance

Online Courses
Articles
 c. Inferential Statistics

Basic Competence
Understand the idea of statistical testing

Online Courses
Articles

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