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INTERVIEW | Lisa Qian, Data Scientist at Airbnb | + | “How to Become a Data Scientist”

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In this article + interview from MastersInDataScience, learn information on “How to Become a Data Scientist” and read an interview with Lisa Qian, Data Scientist at Airbnb about what she does on the job.

Great Free Course: Harvard CS50 – Intro To Computer Science (Highly Rated!)

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Whether you’re completely new to computer science or have a decent programming background (without formal training), this is a great FREE Course from Harvard called CS50 “Introduction to Computer Science”.

It can also be taken for certification or course credits as well (info in article). It’s easy to follow along and has received much praise from the 10’s of thousands who’ve taken it to date. In this post you will have direct access to all the video lectures and links to do more. Read More…

Edu-VIDEO | Great Machine Learning Course from CalTech!- Lectures 1 thru 18 (free)

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Great (free) Machine Learning course for beginners by Caltech University. Introduction to; supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Components of the learning problem. Lectures 1 of 18 of Caltech’s Machine Learning Course – CS 156 by Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa. Watch Video

Edu-Video | Apache Flink: A Quick Guide to the Next Generation Stream Processing Platform

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VIDEO | Apache Flink: A Quick Guide to the Next Generation Stream Processing Platform with Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski’s, founder of SciSpike, a company doing custom development, consulting and training. He is the author of the O’Reilly course “Introduction to Big Data”. Watch Video

Guide | How To Obtain a FREE “Open Source” Masters in Data Science

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A FREE Masters in Data Science. More and more people are learning on-line via the flood of excellent “open source” resources of classes, ebooks, software, etc. Clare Corthell has created a website to allow anybody to take virtually the same curriculum offered for a Masters in Data Science for Free.

Will it be an official Masters? No, but an official Masters is not always what is needed. Often its the knowledge and experience working with the tools and techniques necessary to actually do Data Science. For some, this free curriculum will allow business-line leaders, Analysts and Programmers from other fields to fill in the education gaps and get better at their job, as well as, one step closer to being an actual Data Scientist. Read More