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Data Science Roadmap for Beginners

Following is the roadmap to learn Data Science skills for a total beginner (no coding or computer
science background needed). It includes FREE learning resources for technical skills (or tool skills) and
soft (or core) skills ⛷

Total Duration: 6 Months

3 hours in Tool Skills + 1 hour in Core Skills = 4 hours study Every Day

Week 1 and 2: Python 🐍

 Topics
o Variables, Numbers, Strings
o Lists, Dictionaries, Tuples
o If condition, for loop
o Functions, modules

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o Read, write files

o Exception handling
o Classes, Objects
 Learning Resources
o Track A (Free)
 Codebasics python tutorials (first 16) - https://bit.ly/3X6CCC7
 Codebasics python HINDI tutorials - https://bit.ly/3vmXrgw
o Track B (Paid with minor fees)
 Python course: https://codebasics.io/courses/python-for-beginner-and-
intermediate-learners

 Assignment

☐ Track A: Finish all these exercises: https://bit.ly/3k1mof5

☐ Track B: Finish exercises and quizzes for relevant topics
☐ Create a professional looking LinkedIn profile
 Have a clear profile picture, banner image (data scientist loading…)
 Add tags such as: Open to work etc.

Week 3, 4: Pandas, Data Visualization (matplotlib or seaborn) 📊

 Tech Skills
o numpy
 numpy YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/3GTppa8
o pandas
 pandas YouTube playlist (first 10 videos only): https://bit.ly/3vPJWpX
o matplotlib or seaborn
 Do not learn both
 matplotlib and seaborn are libraries for data visualization and exploration
 matplotlib YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/3k55egu
 Core/Soft Skills
o Linkedin

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 Start following prominent data science, analytics influencers

 Daliana Liu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/
 Hemanand Vadivel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemvad/
 Increase engagement
 Start commenting meaningfully on data science and career related
posts
 Helps network with others working in the industry build
connections
 Learning and brainstorming opportunity
 Remember online presence is a new form of resume
o Business Fundamentals - Soft Skill
 Learn business concepts from ThinkSchool and other YT Case Studies
 Example: How Amul beat competition: https://youtu.be/nnwqtZiYMxQ
o Discord
 Start asking questions and get help from the community. This post shows
how to ask questions the right way: https://bit.ly/3I70EbI
 Join codebasics discord server: https://discord.gg/r42Kbuk
 Assignment

☐ Write meaningful comments on at least 10 data science related LinkedIn posts

☐ Note down your key learnings from 3 case studies on ThinkSchool and share with
your friend

Week 5, 6, 7, 8: Statistics and Math for Data Science

 Finish this excellent Khan academy course on statistics and probability

o Course link: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability
 When you are doing khan academy course, you can use stat quest YouTube channel to
clear your doubts
 Complete math and statistics for data science YouTube playlist with Python code (Khan
academy course doesn’t have Python code)
o Playlist link: https://bit.ly/3QrSXis
 Assignment
☐ Finish all exercises in that playlist: https://bit.ly/3QrSXis

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☐ Perform EDA (Exploratory data analysis on at least 3 datasets on

https://www.kaggle.com/

Week 9, 10, 11, 12: Machine Learning ⚒

 Machine Learning
o Topics
 Feature engineering
 Regression
 Classification
 Clustering
o Learning Resources
 YouTube playlist (more than 2 million views): https://bit.ly/3io5qqX
 First 21 videos
 Feature engineering playlist: https://bit.ly/3IFa3Yf
 Core/Soft Skills
o Project Management
 Scrum: https://scrumtrainingseries.com/
 Kanban: https://youtu.be/jf0tlbt9lx0
 Tools: JIRA, Notion
 Assignment
☐ Complete all exercises in ML playlist: https://bit.ly/3io5qqX
☐ Work on 2 Kaggle ML notebooks
☐ Write 2 LinkedIn posts on whatever you have learnt in ML
☐ Discord: Help people with at least 10 answers

Week 13, 14, 15: Machine Learning Projects with Deployment 🎯

 You need to finish two end to end ML projects. One on Regression, the other on
Classification
 Regression Project: Bangalore property price prediction
o YouTube playlist link: https://bit.ly/3ivycWr

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o Project covers following

 Data cleaning
 Feature engineering
 Model building and hyper parameter tuning
 Write flask server as a web backend
 Building website for price prediction
 Deployment to AWS
 Classification Project: Sports celebrity image classification
o YouTube playlist link: https://bit.ly/3ioaMSU
o Project covers following
 Data collection and data cleaning
 Feature engineering and model training
 Flask server as a web backend
 Building website and deployment
 Assignment
o In above two projects make following changes
☐ Use FastAPI instead of flask. FastAPI tutorial: https://youtu.be/Wr1JjhTt1Xg
☐ Regression project: Instead of property prediction, take any other project of
your interest from Kaggle for regression
☐ Classification project: Instead of sports celebrity classification, take any other
project of your interest from Kaggle for classification and build end to end
solution along with deployment to AWS or Azure

Week 16, 17: SQL 💰

 Topics
o Basics of relational databases
o Basic Queries: SELECT, WHERE LIKE, DISTINCT, BETWEEN, GROUP BY, ORDER BY
o Advanced Queries: CTE, Subqueries, Window Functions
o Joins: Left, Right, Inner, Full
o Stored procedures and functions
o No need to learn database creation, indexes, triggers etc. as those things are
rarely used by data scientists

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 Learning Resources
o Track A
 Khan academy: https://bit.ly/3WFku20
 https://www.w3schools.com/sql/
 https://sqlbolt.com/
o Track B
 SQL course for data professionals: https://codebasics.io/courses/sql-
beginner-to-advanced-for-data-professionals
 Core/Soft Skills
o Presentation skills
 Death by PowerPoint: https://youtu.be/Iwpi1Lm6dFo
 Assignment
☐ Participate in resume project challenge on https://codebasics.io/
 These challenges help you improve technical skills, soft skills and business
understanding
 Link: https://codebasics.io/event/codebasics-resume-project-challenge
☐ Make a LinkedIn post with a submission of your resume project challenge
 Sample post: https://bit.ly/3GxGaq1
 Codebasics is promoting winning entries to employers. This way you can
get interview calls. We do this in two ways
o We have a database of employers hiring for data analyst positions.
We send first 10 or 20 profiles based on their performance
o LinkedIn post by Dhaval (who has more than 100k followers and
some of them are HR managers, data analytics senior managers):
https://bit.ly/3jnni5c

Week 18, 19, 20: BI Tool (Power BI or Tableau) 📈

 Power BI
o Track A (Free)
 Sales insights Power BI project: https://bit.ly/3C1WKgA
 Personal finance project:
project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSoCa2NGj4
 HR data analytics project: https://bit.ly/3C7cw9P

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o Track B (Paid for affordable fees)

 Sales insights project tutorial playlist: https://bit.ly/3C1WKgA
 My Power BI course that can make you job
ready: https://codebasics.io/courses/power-bi-data-analysis-with-end-to-
end-project
 Tableau
o Codebasics sales insights project: http://bit.ly/3YQSBFV
o HINDI codebasics sales insights project: https://bit.ly/3hZXUCb
 Should I learn Power BI or Tableau?
o If someone asks me to pick between Power BI and Tableau, I always suggest
Power BI as it is growing in popularity as compared to Tableau.
o This Gartner research shows Power BI is leading a BI game:
https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-2022-gartner-mq-report-on-bi-and-
analytics-platforms.html?LCID=EN-US

 Assignment
☐ Participate in one resume project challenge
 These challenges help you improve technical skills, soft skills and business
understanding
☐ Make a LinkedIn post with video presentation
 Example post: https://bit.ly/3WMTgGK (Naveen S)
☐ Discord server participation

Week 21, 22, 23, 24: Deep Learning 🤖

 Deep Learning YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/3vOZ3zV

 End to end potato disease classification project: https://bit.ly/3QzkVJi

 Assignment
☐ Instead of potato plant images use tomato plant images or some other image
classification dataset
☐ Deploy to Azure instead of GCP

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☐ Create a presentation as if you are presenting to stakeholders and upload video

presentation on LinkedIn

Week 25 onwards…. 😀😀😀

 More projects 📽
 Online brand building through LinkedIn, Kaggle, Discord, Opensource contribution
 Resume and interview preparation 📃
o Resume prep video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQSI8NLOMw
 Job application and Success 🚀

Tips of effective learning 🔥

 Spend less time in consuming information, more time in

o Digesting
o Implementing
o Sharing
 Group learning
o Use partner-and-group-finder channel on codebasics discord server for group
study and hold each other accountable for the progress of your study plan. Here
is the discord server link: https://discord.gg/r42Kbuk

Inspirational Stories 😃

 Career transition stories: https://bit.ly/3PUZ4f3

Advanced Topics 🔭

 ML Ops. What is it and how can I learn it?

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o This post has necessary information: https://bit.ly/3X220Jk

 Cloud ML Platforms
o Big cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud have their own ML
offering such as Amazon Sagemaker in case of AWS. As a fresher it is ok if you
are not familiar with these cloud platforms but once you have some experience it
is good to have experience and know-how of at least one cloud ML platform.
 Natural Language Processing (NLP)
o NLP YouTube playlist: https://bit.ly/3XnjfEZ
 Computer Vision
o Computer vision is a vast field where one can use OpenCV, PyTorch, Tensorflow
etc for deep learning approaches for computer vision as well. You can find many
resources online on this. I do not have a specific recommendation for this

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