DATA SCIENCE – CRASH COURSEWith advice on how to succeed

By: Danko Nikolic

1. Define the problem by talking to the customer.

Advice: Be thorough in askingquestions.

2. Identify data and ingest them.

Advice: Simpler is often better.

3. Ensure you have proper tools. Advice: Use whatever

works best for you.

4. Do your data science magic.Advice: compute something, think about results,reorganize data, compute more, reorganize again, think more, read literature, go for a walk, come up with an idea, try it, fail, be frustrated, come in terms with the failure, take a good sleep, try a new idea, clench on partial success, think more, have a great insight, test it, accept that the insight was wrong, be in crisis on whether you will ever succeed, blame it on the customer,fail to come up with a good idea, compute a bad idea, wonder why it works

… keep repeating until you succeed.

5. Report results.

Advice: Make it look obvious.