Calculus For Data Science: What Do You Really Need to Know?

This one picture shows what areas of calculus and linear algebra are most useful for data scientists. If you read any article worth its salt on the topic Math Needed for Data Science, you'll see calculus mentioned. Calculus (and it's closely related counterpart, linear algebra) has some very narrow (but very useful) applications to data science. If you have a decent algebra background (which I'm assuming you do, if you're a data scientist!) You don't usually need to know exactly how to take derivatives, minimize sums of squares or create clustering algorithms from scratch--there are calculators for that!