Dataquest

On this platform, I feel that learning Data Science is an RPG mission in which I have very clearly the path that I must go through. And if it gets a bit boring or difficult, I can only change the mission or the approach, but my race to the finish line... Read More continues to approach. And it is very gratifying to see through the reports how much time we are dedicating and what we are achieving. It's like a reward: "Look how much I've done so far and how long it will take to complete it!"
One detail I love is that you can adjust your goals according to your availability. You have short and complex missions, divided into several subjects. There are days when you choose a mission or another according to your appetite. It's like a delicious self-service menu, rich in choices and flavors.

I have been using Dataquest at my own pace for over a year. If you read faster than you listen to audio, then it's definitely the course for you.
I like how easy it is to find and review topics by clicking through the reading slides. Each topic prepares... Read More you to code a bit on that topic. All those little bits
of code you practice will come together in the final hands-on project at the end of each section. You are sequentially prepared to be able to
perform. I found all the projects interesting, too, because the projects explore data relevant to current issues in America.
For the money, it is the best program. I get more out of Dataquest than I got out of Coursera courses on data science!!! That's saying a lot.
I feel that I am set up for success with Dataquest, whereas on Coursera I sometimes was expected to program in a different language than
what the lecture slides used, or the exercises were way more advanced than the lectures, and it resulted in a lot of frustration.
With Dataquest, every section and topic is intentional as the next step to prepare me to know how to code, with a final project in mind. I highly recommend it.
It's the ONLY online coding course I took where I NEVER felt that I was wasting my time.

After doing research on my own, I decided the best way to learn DS/ML was to concentrate in one MOOC plattform with courses that could cover everything I thought I needed to learn, so I did some courses in Coursera but felt they lacked more real-world... Read More problems and practice in general. Later I discovered Datacamp and Dataquest at the same time, did the first Python courses on DC and didn't like it so much, exercises were too easy and didn't really feel I was learning that much. Later I tried DQ and I immediately felt in love with their path/course/mission dynamic, sometimes you can stay hours while you're really having fun. In favor of Datacamp they have videos and a wider selection of courses, meanwhile Dataquest uses a very well achieved mix of text, images and GIFs to present the subjects in a very easy to understand way, but most important of all, when you put your knowledge in practice it actually feels challenging and you feel you're learning useful stuff you can use someday. I've only been using DQ for 2-3 weeks and I'd recommend it to everyone who wants to enter the Data Science world. 11/10.

I'm doing the data analyst in R path, so far very positive. I have a business background and some statistical knowledge, the R class is really intuitive and in my opinion well structured for beginners. No experience with other platforms though, but I... Read More would definitely recommend it to a friend!

I am doing data science with Python Programming. Dataquest is a fantastic resource. It allows to gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals. This makes it ideal for people of all skill levels. Unlike like other programs, you learn by doing rather... Read More than watching hours of lecture videos. The guided projects give the experience working with real-world data, which is essential in developing the necessary skill set for working as a data scientist in industry.

I'm just starting out but so far I really like it. The explanations they give are succinct and the short exercises after each slide really help solidify what you learned. I am starting to feel like Python is natural! My only complaint is that when I was... Read More about 1/3 of the way through the course they introduced an upgrade. They said there would be an option to stay on the current version but when the upgrade came it wasn't clear how to do this. All of my progress got erased and I had to start at the beginning of the new version. I was really annoyed. However, I have to say that the new version seems more comprehensive and more focused to data science. Overall, satisfied.

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... Read More 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... Read More 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... Read More 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 fixed. If there's a connection problem it is for a few seconds.

Things tend to break after updates. Their updates seem to be getting less-buggy, but still could be better