How to Become a Data Scientist: The Definitive Guide

Hi! I'm Jose Portilla and I'm an instructor on Udemy with over 250,000 students enrolled across various courses on Python for Data Science and Machine Learning, R Programming for Data Science, Python for Big Data, and many more. What should I do to become a data scientist? In this post, I'll try my best to help answer this question and point to resources that can help guide you to an answer, also hopefully this post serves as something I can quickly link to my students:) I've broken down the steps into some key topics and discussed helpful details for each. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." If you are interested in becoming a data scientist the best advice is to begin preparing for your journey now!