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Absolutely! Here's a complete and detailed roadmap to become a professional data scientist, broken
down into 6 clear stages, with tools, topics, resources, and a study path at each level.
OVERVIEW: 6 STAGES TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL DATA SCIENTIST
Stage Goal
Learn Python for Data Science (Foundations)
Master Math, Statistics & Probability
Data Wrangling, EDA & Visualization
Learn Machine Learning
Build Real-World Projects & Portfolio
Optional: Deep Learning, Big Data, & Cloud Tools
STAGE 1: Learn Python for Data Science
GOAL: Build strong Python foundations, tools, and logic.
Topics to Study (covered by 30 Days of Python):
Week Topics Resources
1 Variables, data types, strings, numbers, lists, tuples, sets 02_Day_ to 06_Day_ folders
2 Dictionaries, conditionals, loops 07_Day_ to 10_Day_
3 Functions (basic, lambda), modules, list comprehension 11_Day_ to 14_Day_
4 Errors, datetime, file handling, OOP 15_Day_ to 21_Day_
5 Web scraping, virtual environments 22_Day_, 23_Day_
6 Python + pandas, APIs, MongoDB 24_Day_ to 27_Day_
Bonus Build your first mini-project (text cleaner, web scraper) Use what you've learned
Learn by: coding, small exercises, explaining what you learned.
STAGE 2: Learn Math, Statistics & Probability
GOAL: Understand the numbers behind models and analysis.
Topics:
Area Subtopics Resources
Linear algebra (vectors, matrices), calculus
Math Khan Academy, 3Blue1Brown
(gradients), discrete math
Mean/median/mode, variance, std dev, 24_Day_Statistics, Khan Academy,
Stats
correlation, distributions "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists"
Conditional probability, Bayes theorem,
Probability Khan Academy, "Think Stats" book
independence
Hypothesis
Z-test, t-test, p-value, confidence intervals StatQuest (YouTube), Medium tutorials
Testing
STAGE 3: Data Wrangling, Analysis & Visualization
GOAL: Clean, analyze, and visualize real-world messy data.
Topics:
Category Tools / Topics Learn From
Data pandas, missing data, outliers, data types,
Kaggle tutorials, 25_Day_Pandas
Cleaning assertions
Descriptive stats, correlation heatmaps, groupby,
EDA pandas docs, real datasets
pivot, value_counts
Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, histograms, box plots, Kaggle: Seaborn/Plotly beginner
Visualization heatmaps notebooks
pandas, Kaggle Time Series
Time Series Resampling, rolling mean, datetime parsing
tutorial
Practice: Use datasets from Kaggle Datasets
STAGE 4: Machine Learning
GOAL: Learn how models work, build and evaluate them.
Topics:
Area Concepts Tools
Supervised vs unsupervised, regression,
ML Basics scikit-learn
classification, clustering
Model Types Linear/Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, KNN, SVM scikit-learn
Confusion matrix, accuracy, recall, precision, F1-
Evaluation scikit-learn
score, ROC
Feature pandas,
Normalization, encoding, missing values
Engineering sklearn.preprocessing
Model Tuning Cross-validation, grid/random search scikit-learn
Pipelines Combining steps in sklearn scikit-learn Pipelines
Resources:
• Kaggle ML Course
• Hands-On ML with Scikit-Learn
STAGE 5: Build Real Projects & Portfolio
GOAL: Show real-world ability, get job-ready.
Project Ideas:
Type Examples
EDA Project Analyze Netflix, COVID-19, or Titanic datasets
ML Project Predict house prices, customer churn, loan approval
NLP Project Sentiment analysis on Twitter or reviews
Time Series Predict stock prices or weather
End-to-End Clean data → train ML model → build web app with Streamlit
Deployment:
• Streamlit, Gradio for frontend
• Flask or FastAPI for backend
• GitHub for code
• Heroku, Render, or Hugging Face Spaces for hosting
STAGE 6 (Optional): Deep Learning, Big Data & Cloud
GOAL: Expand into advanced data science fields.
Path Learn
Deep Learning Neural nets, CNN, RNN, transformers → use PyTorch or TensorFlow
Big Data SQL, Spark, Hive
Cloud AWS/GCP/Azure for deployment, storage, pipelines
ML Ops Docker, MLflow, CI/CD, model monitoring
Suggested Weekly Plan (Sample for First 3 Months)
Week Focus
1–4 Python (30-Days-Of-Python)
5–6 Statistics & Probability
7–8 Pandas, Data Cleaning & EDA
9–10 Data Visualization + Mini Project
11–12 Machine Learning (Kaggle + real datasets)
What You Need
• Laptop with Python installed (Anaconda or VS Code)
• Account on:
o Kaggle
o GitHub
o Google Colab
• Bookmark:
o Python Docs
o pandas Docs
o Scikit-learn
Resources to Follow
Platform Courses
Kaggle Python, Pandas, ML
Coursera IBM Data Science Specialization, Andrew Ng ML
YouTube StatQuest, Krish Naik, CodeBasics
Books "Hands-On ML", "Python for Data Analysis", "Think Stats"
Would you like me to:
• Help track your weekly progress?
• Create a Notion template or checklist?
• Suggest your first project idea?
Let me know how deep you'd like to go!
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