Teaching Data Science with Vik Paruchuri

There is a need for more data scientists to make sense of the vast amounts of data we produce and store.

Dataquest is an in-browser platform for learning data science that is tackling this problem.

Vik Paruchuri is the founder of Dataquest. He was previously a machine learning engineer at EdX and before that a U.S. diplomat.

Questions

• What is data science?
• How does data science compare to software engineering?
• How does someone new to data science go about starting off at Kaggle?
• In machine learning, there is unsupervised learning and supervised learning. Could you contrast these two?
• What are the biggest world problems that will be solved with data science?

Links

• Dataquest
• How to actually learn data science
• Kaggle

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