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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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