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I want to get into data science but I dont have any prior knowledge on any of the programing languages, how do I go about it?

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Easiest way to get started is with simlpe tools like excel and regression. Doesn't require programming language, basic maths and statistics would suffice to get the grasp at beginner level. Next, more advanced tools like SPSS, Tableau, linear algebra techniques and languages like R, Python could be learnt...
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Easiest way to get started is with simlpe tools like excel and regression. Doesn't require programming language, basic maths and statistics would suffice to get the grasp at beginner level. Next, more advanced tools like SPSS, Tableau, linear algebra techniques and languages like R, Python could be learnt at more advanced stage. To summarise, start with analytics with excel course. Then move onto data science and engineering, as stated above. Hope this helps.Feel free to contact for more clarity. read less
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Hi Likith, if you don't have any Knowledge in Programming also you can start your career with Data Science by learning R programming and Python.
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Please start the parallel process of learning various Statistical measures and develop programming skills on any preferred tool (SAS / R / Python). You need to develop programming skills before getting into data science role.
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Let me first help ypu with the most basic question, What is data science? Today over the internet there are lot of users which contribute a lot of data, like you create an facebook account, just by signing up you provided data to them like your name, age etc.This the data in data science. When you start...
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Let me first help ypu with the most basic question, What is data science? Today over the internet there are lot of users which contribute a lot of data, like you create an facebook account, just by signing up you provided data to them like your name, age etc.This the data in data science. When you start to use facebook more commonly you provide more data to be handled by them like your intrests, friends etcs .Thus a relationhip is established by them among your intrests and likes to provide you with content similar to your likes and dislikes.This is data science study and analysing data to get new data. As you said you have no prior experience of programming. You dont actually need experience to start, get started by reading abour databases, Sql, then move on to r language. read less
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For Data Science career, there are two part knowledge needed. 1st Knowledge of Statistics and 2nd any one of the tools like Python, R, SAS and Excel.
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Yes you can, but if you have knowledge about Programming concepts is fine.
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Yes, you can become a Data Scientist without any experience. Recently, Harvard Review called Data Scientist the best Job of 21st Century. There are many courses available online to make you an experienced Data Scientist. In Data Science, R and SAS are the biggest and upcoming courses. There courses give...
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Yes, you can become a Data Scientist without any experience. Recently, Harvard Review called Data Scientist thebest Job of 21st Century. There are many courses available online to make you an experienced Data Scientist.In Data Science, R and SAS are the biggest and upcoming courses. There courses give a required understanding to Data Exploration, Visualization and Hypothesis thesis. After doing this course, you can target the role of Data Scientist in any organization. Data Science today is becoming more and more prominent with vacancies that the number skilled professionals. read less
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Here is the 5 Steps Guide to learn Data Science: Step 1. Learn Basics of Statistcs. Step 2. Python / Programming Language. Step 3. Domain Knowledge: Retail / Pharma, etc. Step 4. Databases: Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop. Step 5. Visualizaiton: Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau.
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Here is the5 Steps Guide to learn Data Science: Step 1. Learn Basics of Statistcs. Step 2. Python / Programming Language. Step 3. Domain Knowledge: Retail / Pharma, etc. Step 4. Databases: Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop. Step 5. Visualizaiton: Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau. read less
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The easiest way, since you mention not having prior programming knowledge, is to start with Javascript and use the basic data handling and visualization libraries like datalib.js and d3.js. With those, you can very quickly get started working with data and seeing the results immediately on your browser. You...
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The easiest way, since you mention not having prior programming knowledge, is to start with Javascript and use the basic data handling and visualization libraries like datalib.js and d3.js. With those, you can very quickly get started working with data and seeing the results immediately on your browser. You don't need complicated toolchains for Javascript programming, and it will take you a long way in learning data science. Once you have gotten confident in your data science, your Javascript knowledge will also make it easier to learn other languages too. read less
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Hi, you do not need knowledge of any programming languages to become a data scientist. You can learn statistical tools like SAS, R, SPSS etc.
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