Just found this channel - love the emphasis on a realistic path. There's a lot of hype BS out there, so honesty is refreshing. Rooting for you - hope the channel grows! (PS I'm a fellow DS KZreadr :) )

This is great, subscribed as I’d love to follow your career and how much you grow. I myself am close to finishing a NQV level 3 course as a data technician and looking to move on to a level 4 data analyst course. t the moment I’ve only worked with Power BI and Excel although I was thinking of doing data camp for Python R although I am rethinking it after hearing your experience… so for anyone who knows a good route to take to educate myself on Python R I’d love to hear from you! Also good luck on your internship I hope all is going well and continues to do so!

I appreciate this REALISTIC story. Took me about 2 years to land a tech gig. Great video!

Great vid, man! Subscribed, keep it up!

Great video Bro, I wish you success, and all colleagues who are working hard in the world of data🌍📊

I appreciate how realistic this video is. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.

Keep up the great content and thanks for sharing.

This is so awesome. I really relate to the datacamp 😂. I’m doing my masters now.first semester. I still need to reprogram my brain to think logically. Good luck.

Dude I saw this video and then went to ur Channel and Man U truly deserve more subs

Hi Nash, Thank you so much for sharing this experience and for being very honest about your challenges. I am 30 years old, also from a bio background, and I have been questioning whether or not it's worth going back to school for this and you have pretty much convinced me that IT IS. I feel so behind in life but hearing about your journey really made me realize just how important it is to have courage and take that leap. You deserve way more subscribers and thank you for giving me the courage to push forward with my decision.

@datanash8200

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it, I would highly recommend a conversion masters if it makes sense for your situation

Thank you for sharing your experiences. About 2 months ago i started watching tutorials and teaching myself how to code. Making a full on project seems like a daunting task but a necessary step for development.

@kelvinabidha

Ай бұрын

How's your journey going so far ?

Great video 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

As someone who is starting a data science/data analyst bootcamp tomorrow in London, UK these videos have been helpful. I will be posting videos every few days on my channel on my progress.

It is interesting to watch you, good speech and presentation of information, I think it would not hurt you to add editing to such videos for a greater atmosphere, and I wish you success!

damn your channel is a gold mine

This is very interesting stuff. I might drop in with comments every now and again. TL:DR version I guess I could be the notorious "genius" version data scientist. My honest advice. Just follow what Nash says here, we need more data scientists of all sizes and the road towards the goal can be really fun. Pick up an easy target early on. If you really badly want to get to a useful level fast, you can go spend money on courses. If you have time and no money, go the old school route which is picking a language and googling for codes. Longer version I'm probably on the entirely opposite end of what a Data scientist can be. I grew up with PCs, spend most of my life infront of one. My mother is one of Denmarks best Test managers, my father and grandfather worked with Hardware sales and I was taught by my mother's programmer colleagues early on. So to say I had it easy is an understatement. Everyone and everything in my life even from an early age has pointed me towards programming, IT and data analysis(just because i found that fun) I know C++, C#, Lua, R, Python, SQL(galore), VBA/script... etc. and I study mathematics-statistics for a future career in Quantitative finance. I've always had it easy with programming/IT and mathematics/statistics. In my experience there is no magic trick to both programming and mathematics. It's all based on logical statements, such as : If the sun comes up it must also go down. The difference between the phrase and the IT/maths is that it's written with symbols instead of words. High-level programming such as Python might look a little more like writing than say C++. Which is closer to the symbolic logic of mathematics. For beginners I'd recommend 1. Honestly having someone like Nash show you the route, while engaging with you makes the entire thing 150% easier, this is why I attempted to mention the first part. I had someone like Nash for the entire route and still have till this day. 2. Pick up and learn ONE and ONLY ONE programming language, preferably a high-level one, such as Python or VBA. Download their respective editors. Get some practice down on the coding in your prefered language. If you have money it can be worth your while to take a course on codecademy, datacamp, udemy or any of the many many other sites. 3. Pick up mathematics, now... This is usually the harder one for people. Mathematics, for some reason... Is even harder to pick up than programming. Nevertheless, Discrete mathematics, Linear algebra, Calculus and probability&statistics are must knows. BUT! you actually don't need to know all of it. Only the essentials. I believe if you simply go through either choice on Brilliant.org it'll be fine. (choices being Maths, Computer science, Data analysis and something)

Great video, if you were to start again, what kind of route would you take instead?

Great video bro! I'm not afraid of coding, but.....from math! how much math do I need to know for data science?

Damn Im at the data Camp step ahaha I got about 50k point and I swear I was feeling confident as hell 😂 But you make me realize that I'm just at the early beginning of my journey!! Can't wait to see more content from you!

@datanash8200

Жыл бұрын

To be fair it was my first online course and part of the reason i learnt nothing was my fault lol! A video on that experience soon!

Thanks a lot, always appreciate an honest commentary about a journey with the steps taken involved 😊 I will be waiting your comments about the sources you chose to study and the results you get. Also, I am quite surprised about your Datacamp experience, since someone knowledgable that I knew recommended this cite recently 🤔

@mckenziedavey8778

Жыл бұрын

Yes same I was thinking of enrolling into data camp to learn Python R although do not know what to think now…

Thanks for sharing. I am graduating high school this year and am deciding to go to college for data science. I can’t wait for my internship some day!

@datanash8200

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure you'll go far 🙌

@vanealvarez100

Жыл бұрын

Hi Crany! I’m on the same situation. What’s the name of the university you choose? I’ve been looking for some but apparently there’s just masters degree

@reneticsk

Жыл бұрын

@@vanealvarez100 Well, I live in MN, US. So I’m going to either the University of Minnesota Twin Cites or NDSU or maybe Winona State. I would recommend to just go to the most cost effective school nearby. The degree is all that matters. Also, my parents didn’t want me to do online programs since there are higher drop out rates. College is expensive too :/

Appreciate the video thank you

@datanash8200

Жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

Personally, I've always been good at learning programming languages, so I never really understood those courses. Whenever I needed to learn a new language, I'd literally start off with a small project, learn the syntax and basics off of Google and move on from there. I really think people should learn programming through experience, through doing projects, experiencing bugs and learning how to find and fix them

@ctolcode

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's the fastest and cheapest way forward. But a good question to you and to me is... What did we do in the beginning? How did we get started with our first one? Mine was C++, because Python and R wasn't really a thing back than. HTML/CSS/Java was also something, but it didn't stick to me.

@somerandomguywastaken

Жыл бұрын

@@ctolcode I started with VBA in secondary school but they didn't really guide us anywhere. They told us, use this language, do this project. U gotta learn through doing. Although, some things like OOP should be taught because of its "complicated" nature I guess. I mean, Google taught me OOP because the school explanations were trash but we move

Great video! but one important thing is that I didn't quite get the tldr of the video honestly, like how did you manage to actually learn the the skills for this field (to land a job), You said you failed the first programming assignment in the uni but after three or four days decided to relearn everything from scratch and then you somehow did ? how did you actually learn the skills is my question... thanks in advance !

Really a motivational video to the people like me who are from non-tech background and want to pursue their carrier in DS. Thank You. You just earned a new subscriber.

awesum. vid. brah.

@datanash8200

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Bijay!

Subbed fr

Thank you Nash, I'm an Astrophysics graduate looking to transition into the field of data science. Luckily, I've used python quite a bit to work with astronomy data using matplotlib. Currently I'm taking the IBM data science course (very basic) and honestly it familiarizes me with the field more than anything else. I'm going to pick up SQL and a cloud service like AWS. I'm going to do a project involving python, sql and a cloud service. I appreciate your honesty in your journey and I'm happy to learn and progress in any case. I'm hoping to get a really solid project so I can start somewhere without having to go back to uni. What do you think of this plan? I'd love to hear any input or feedback. I reside in the Netherlands and honestly I think the job market is more open for starters here than in the UK, I really struggled in London.

@datanash8200

8 ай бұрын

Hi mate, as an astrophysicist I don't think you have to go to uni just for DS (E.G. thealmostastrophysicist check out her channel). Especially with your python experience. I would say building projects is great while applying for jobs as well!

@Teddy0567

8 ай бұрын

@@datanash8200 thanks man appreciate the input and recommendation, your video has been very helpful as well. I will check out her channel as well! I've got 3 interviews next week, 1 junior position and 2 traineeships. not great salaries but can get by and it'd be nice to get some good experience under my belt! keep well and thanks for doing what you do!

Thank you for this honest video. Can relate with it as I am also a newbie to data science and also have problem in coding . Hoping for more such videos.

@mckenziedavey8778

Жыл бұрын

Hi there, could you tell me about your eoxienxe before getting into data science? As I myself am looking to take my career in this path and would love any tips or advice you might be able to share ( i am currently completing a level 3 data technician course working with Excel and Power BI) thanks!

I am currently taking a Business Analytics masters which is kinda heavy on Maths and Programming at the University I'm studying in. The assessment criteria is extremely difficult in here. I completed my Bachelors in Finance back in 2016 but got into School Teaching. I hope one day in the upcoming year or two I will come back here to let you guys know if I made it into my First Data job. Stay motivated.

@ghettoghost2657

Жыл бұрын

That’s interesting I’m on the exact same path

Hi everyone! Great video, I love it! I have a serious question, I'm currently studying the Google data analyst certification course on Coursera and studying data analysis on Platzi (I'm from Latin America, Argentina) I don't have a degree, with this courses I would have a opportunity getting a job? I'm studying 5 hrs daily and loving all the data world so far, but I'm scared that all this effort would be in vain bc i studying only self-taught. You guys have an advice for me? Sorry for my bad English, currently practicing that too :) Cheers to all :)

@datanash8200

Жыл бұрын

Hi Miguel!bIn my opinion as long as you get good at it you will be able to get a job! As a self-taught you might need a stronger portfolio full of interesting projects you've done but you can definitely do it!

But would you say datacamp (or any simular platform) is good to learn the basics after which you can start to work on projects? Or do you recommend taking another path? I am now a data analyst but want to do more scientist stuff.

@mckenziedavey8778

Жыл бұрын

I too myself am in the same position, I was going to enroll into a data camp but am having second thoughts about this…

@ctolcode

Жыл бұрын

Datacamp or similar platforms can get you started and can take you quite a long way in the skills needed. To me, an education or certificate is needed for anyone to want me. Therefore I would only recommend skills be developed in places where you can get a worthwhile diploma of some sort. If you simply want skill, all you need is 1. the language you want and its editor/compiler 2. practice. Which usually comes from running your code on data

Brother the basic problem I face is how should I even start with the project. Like I am familiar with programming languages but selecting a project is the most critical thing for me. Any suggestions on that?

@datanash8200

Жыл бұрын

It took me ages to decide on my first project. I think if you do one or two on things that don't even matter/are just fun for you just to get in a rhythm of what a project actually is and how to structure it. But if you want to go serious I would pick a domain (e.g. finance, tech, medicine) do maybe 2-3 follow along projects from youtube and while doing these you will probably think of your own unique idea e.g. this youtuber found out X about this topic but they didn't cover Y. So I will now do Y

I'm pretty bad at maths. Would you recommend me pursuing data science? How much math do you use on a day to day basis?

@datanash8200

Жыл бұрын

Hi Taha, how "bad" is bad. As long as you can think about number's logically and read into it you might be okay. I believe data analysis has slightly less math so maybe that would be a better fit? i'm making a full video going into how much math is involved soon

@ctolcode

Жыл бұрын

Discrete mathematics, Linear Algebra, Calculus and basic Probability/Statistics is usually enough for everything I do

@Vinit_Gambhir

Жыл бұрын

​@@ctolcode Are you in Data Science field!

@ctolcode

Жыл бұрын

@@Vinit_Gambhir Very much so. I work multiple student intern jobs on data science, business intelligence, a little bit of AI and a little bit of quantitative finance. I really wish I could find a full time job in London(anything really), but it's difficult when you don't have a bachelor degree

@Vinit_Gambhir

Жыл бұрын

@@ctolcode That's nice 👍 You means you are under graduate or not did your graduation? Btw I'm also finding a job in Data Science domain. I have learnt ML as well as DL but not getting a job 😕

What kind of keyboard do you use?

@mckenziedavey8778

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know if that’s really the focus point of that video… lol

@ctolcode

Жыл бұрын

Any keyboard with the option of English keys can be used. I'm danish and use my own nationality key-setup, we add æ,ø,å and move some notable symbols around, such as _-.,'¨^\ The most important is that you can write in the language you've chosen to master.

You must be a Libra 😆