Things that could make you a better data scientist (that aren’t data science)

Inspiration

Some articles that I come back to when building a team

• We, the Purple People [dbt blog]
• Run your Data team like a Product team [locallyoptimistic]

SQL, Git, and Markdown

They will prove invaluable. SQL gives you native access to data without relying on possibly complicated abstractions. Markdown is a super cheap way to get basic formatting that works almost everywhere (GDocs, GitHub, Slack, Notion, etc.)

• SQL
  • Cheat Sheet
  • SQL Zoo
• Git
  • Git Basics
• Markdown
  • Markdown Guide

Storytelling with data

Data scientists have to tell stories to stakeholders (execs, other teams) all the time, but we practice with each other. We have a bi-weekly lunch-and-learn or journal club, where it’s one person’s responsibility to teach something (anything!) to the rest of us. It could be walking through an article, the results of an analysis, or technical practices.

• storytelling with data
• data storytelling: how to effectively tell a story with data (harvard)
• check out edward tufte’s books from a library (old school)
• 200 years that chaged the world (gapminder)

Basic stats & probability

Seeing Theory