Dataquest

Dataquest is a fantastic resource for learning data science with Python. The curriculum allows the user to gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals before introducing more complicated concepts. This makes Dataquest ideal for people of all skill levels. Unlike like other programs Dataquest allows you to learn by doing rather than watching hours of lecture videos. The guided projects give the user experience working with real-world datasets which is essential in developing the necessary skill set for working as a data scientist in industry.

The only complaint thus far is that the R programming stream does not contain a lot of course material at the moment. Other online learning sites teach R programming much more thoroughly.

For data scientists, data is their food. The fact that you have learned programming languages, math, or machine learning doesn’t mean you are a data scientist unless you can’t feel the taste of data.

Here, at DataQuest.io, while being stuck with a data more than a week, I have learned the taste of data: how to respect data, how to smell good and bad data, how to pull worms out of apples, and finally how to chew and feel it.

You can learn the core of data science by "learning by doing".

Of course, DataQuest has some problems in its platform, but I know they’re always trying to make it better. You know, perfection is a process.

What I love about DataQuest is how the material is structured. It starts with step by step instructions. Not everything is given to you, but you get some pretty strong hints. It's really difficult for someone who knows something really well to present enough hints to a learner to let them figure things out without getting discouraged. I think DataQuest has nailed this.

Then, after being led a little, you get open-ended projects with less guidance that give you the opportunity to apply the last few units in an unstructured way. These projects really give you the opportunity to consolidate your learning.

DataQuest has had some technical glitches. The Jupyter notebooks connection was spotty sometimes locking me out of my projects for an afternoon. The Jupyter problem seems to be fixe...

The Data quest platform is great for learning all the tools you need for data science. The exercises are fun and are more than just learning code syntax.

I was looking for tutorials on Data Science in late december 2017.
After a few tries, i landed on the free content of Dataquest. The next month, i subscribed to the one year premium subscription. The courses are made with a lot of care, balancing notions of python programming with statistics for data science. They have just the right mix of theory and practice and each course ends with a guided project that can be incorporated in a portfolio. The community and staff are really invested and quick to respond. As a guide, here are a few things that i got to practice/learn:
- Basic python commands (flow control, variables, functions) and advanced notions (web scraping, jupyter notebook)
- Data visualisation (how to make plots and how to choose them)
- Python for data analysis (numpy, pa...

Taking DataQuest was the best decision of the year.

Of course, it teaches you the good basics you need.

On the top, it gives you the habit to read for documentation. The first time it is explained with sentences and after a while, I was able to dive in any documentation with confidence.

What is amazing as well it the quality of the responses of the team any time I had a technical question. A real plus! Awesome people behind it.

Now I am working aside with doctorate people. Love my life.

So I have tried a lot of different online self learning programs for coding and statistical methods. I feel that most either keep it too simple or jump too quickly to specific topics and I never felt that I was getting a comprehensive education until I started dataquest. It is an excellent resource for all skill levels but I for beginners for R or Python its the best resource I can recommend to really get you started on a practical approach to becoming proficient in both languages. It is hard to think of any real cons with the program. Sometimes the lessons are a bit wordy but its hard to avoid in certain topics.

DataQuest offers a very high quality platform for learning Data Science and Data Engineering. Lessons (“missions”) are thoughtfully organized and laid out on a guided path (“quest”) for learners. Each mission is split up into several components, typically 8-14 parts. Each part has a succinct and helpful explanation of the material and then the opportunity to solve a hands-on challenge in order to solidify the concepts learned during each tutorial.

I believe this approach was extremely helpful, and it enforced how I understood the material and how much of the content I retained. Furthermore there was no “fluff” and each tutorial provided helpful and highly applicable content and advice related to the skills needed for a successful data scientist in the industry.

Overall an extremel...

I am currently on Dataquest's "Become a Data Analyst" track, and I'm loving the program for its affordability and immediate results. I've tried a few online learning platforms before such as Coursera and Udemy, and they were pretty good, but I found there was usually some disconnect between the course lectures, the course assignments, and what I'm actually trying to do with the material in my day job.

I personally really appreciate the lack of videos on the Dataquest platform. The learning platform is based on (short) text explanations of a coding concept, and then having the user immediately put the concept into practice. After every few modules is a guided project, which presents the user with an interesting dataset and some objectives that closely resemble real-world business pro...

When i decided to get into the Data science, now the question is from where to get trained.
Live interactive training
Online interactive training
Online video based training
Interactive read and practise training(Dataquest)

I tried different ways above Live interactive is vary expensive , which is schedule based.

Online interactive I tried attending for few demos which did not suit me as 100's of people join where my question's are never answered ,

Online video based training i tried with Udmey with sample course , though i could understand but never got that motivation.

when i keep searching for alternatives , that's when i found Dataquest/Datacamp. I'm not sure how Datacamp is but glad i choose Dataquest. I wanted to try for the
basic course in Dataquest first t...

I first tried Dataquest's first free courses on python to see if it is a good fit. From the first few lessons, I knew I want to continue using them. They manage well to explain not only what you have to do, but also why. Something I missed in other places where they just tell you to use a certain function without a context. After each course, you get to do a project with a goal but without usual help. This helps to apply what was learned in previous steps.

Lessons follow each other naturally and it feels that someone really put a lot of effort to create a seamless experience. Other things I liked: they always provide a link to original documentation, have hits available if you get stuck and need just a little clue, active social community ready to help and of course very responsive ...

I haven't completed even the Data Analyst path yet, but I really like the approach of making you program to learn. Some missions needs for you to get familiar with the imported libraries by yourself, which means learning to search for solutions when needed. Being a computer engineer away from the area for 10 years, I wasn't very familiar with Python, but the hands-on is making me learn really fast, and getting addicted to it too! Also, the "spam" e-mails they send are really useful, with selected Data Science news and tips, and their support is also very ready. So, I feel like my money is being well spent and I truly recommend it for those that want to learn Data Science.

Я пробовала курсы дата аналитики на codeacademy, datacamp, coursera - dataquest оказался самым удобным вариантом и очень недорогим.
codeacademy - все время выдавал ошибки, поэтому обучение стопорилось
coursera - обучает через видео лекции, это не совсем эффективно
data camp почему то показался скучным.

I would recommend Dataquest to those who need to get on track of data scientist with the shortest time. It only takes you 4-6 months to complete the data scientist path and you are capable of publishing your work on Github and understanding what folks in Kaggle or other communities are doing now. Even with super busy workload from my company, I completed the course and am now able to do some data analysis work myself and know where and how to further sharpen my data-scientist skills!

If you are still a student and have unlimited time to study, then I would suggest to go for datacamp or other MOCC. The course depth and broadness are quite different.

I experienced a couple courses of Data Science with Coursera and other platforms already. It was hard and sometimes I was lost. After having found DataQuest it changed. I am with DataQuest now for a year and it is just great. Great exercises, quick response from the team when you are stuck. A very important aspect for me is that you have full access to the data you are working with. Meaning that it is no problem to download it and work with it on your own with Jupyter on your own machine. With other course providers I got sometimes the impression that the exercises they offer only work online and you often have no chance to download the underlying data. If you can download them through GitHub or private sources it is not said that they work as expected. Downloading the data from DataQue...

It's basically code academy but with more bugs. Some lessons are great and some are just not explained clearly or the 'mission' has bugs that make it very annoying. Sometimes they ask you o do things you haven't learned.

Dataquest is an amazing platform. I've been using Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib for more than 2 years. Dataquest helped me to get a deeper understaing of this libraries, how they work, what they do in the background. Working with matplotlib can be really problematic, if you start it on your own (Constantly searching for stackoverflow questions, haha). Dataquest collected all the important information about matplotlib, so now it takes much less time to use it :)

When I first started looking at ways to learn data science I felt completely overwhelmed by all the possibilities there are out there. I wanted to do them all. However, I found it very difficult to keep up with all. Dataquest is an incredibly complete and organized way to reach your goals, with an amazing support team. On top of everything, you'll never be bored by having to follow endless videos and you work on projects to add to your portfolio (all at you own pace).

Dataquest is amazing, the reason why I love it, is because it forces you to learn by doing. I get bored easily from the video courses // lessons out there, also I'm busy with my job, and my life, so watching videos at 1.50x speed is not ideal. In Dataquest you can easily, open your computer in a free time you have, read the lesson, and give it a try, debug your errors, and keep learning.

From my experience of Dataquest, I have found that the website is a good platform to learn and develop your skills in data science or in programming python(as I have learnt python through it). Dataquest has good exercises and also systematic approach to learn the topics and their application.