It seems like lots of people on LW want a slice of this "data science" pie that everyone keeps talking about. I know it's a highly ambiguous buzzword at the moment, but what would be a good syllabus for these people?
I'm cobbling my own together at the moment, (mostly consisting of R, NumPy, lxml and a lot of extracurricular linear algebra), but it never hurts to have a bit of extra structure. What should prospective "data scientists" be learning, and where can they find it?
What should prospective "data scientists" be learning, and where can they find it?
matt of Conductrics put up a somewhat detailed blog post on learning data science.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.