Essential Skills for Data Science

Logeshwar Ravichandran
1 min readAug 29, 2019
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Here is a list of what I believe are the 10 Essential Skills for #DataScience:

1. Initiative — Getting Started
What is Data Science?

2. SQL Skills {Intermediate — Advanced}

3. Data Manipulation and Visualization
a. Python
Pandas
Matplotlib/Seaborn

b. R
Dplyr
Ggplot2

4. Core Statistical Inference (Nice use case)

5. Machine Learning Fundamentals

6. Deep Learning Fundamentals

7. Version Control (Git/Github)

8. Basics of Command Line

9. Communication & Data Storytelling

10. Curiosity
The community here is big. Attend meetups, join hackathons, and start doing some pet projects. Share your work. Get feedback. Learn everyday. And always ask questions. We’re all here to help!

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Everything you want is out there. Be proactive with your search and sooner or later you’ll get it!

Thanks, hope this helps 🙂

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