When I launched Dataquest a little under two years ago, one of the first things I did was write a blog post about why. At the time, if you wanted to become a data scientist, you were confronted with dozens of courses on sites like edX or Coursera with no easy path to getting a job.
I saw many promising students give up on learning data science because they got stuck in a loop of taking the same courses over and over. There were two main barriers to learning data science that I was trying to solve with Dataquest: the challenge of getting from theory to application, and the challenge of knowing what to learn next.
I strongly believe that everyone deserves a chance to do work that they find interesting, and Dataquest was a way to put that belief into action and help others get a toehold in a difficult field. Over the past two years, we’ve made it simple to learn all of the skills you need for a data science role in one place. From basic Python to SQL to Machine Learning, Dataquest teaches you the right skills, and helps you build a portfolio of...