ChatGPT Guide: How I’d Learn Data Science if I Could Start Again
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Gencay I.
Originally published on Towards AI.
Navigating the Data Science Landscape with Insights from ChatGPT: Machine Learning, Data Visualization, and Web Scraping Techniques.

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In the spring of 2017, I decided to start a career in Data Science.
This decision came shortly after resigning from my job as an Engineer at an airline company.
Of course, there are many more details to this story, but let’s focus on how I learned Data Science. In those days, I enrolled in a Coursera course titled ‘Data Science with R’ offered by Johns Hopkins University.
I vividly remember struggling, especially with coding in dplyr.
I knew how to search the internet and use resources like Stack Overflow to debug my code, but if I compare those… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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