Tutorials & Courses¶

Free, high quality¶

• Kaggle Learn — short, hands-on tracks (Pandas, SQL, ML, Visualization)
• StatQuest YouTube — best stats explanations on the internet
• 3Blue1Brown — visual math (linear algebra, probability)
• Seeing Theory — interactive probability/stats
• Khan Academy — Statistics
• fast.ai — practical deep learning
• Mode SQL Tutorial — practical SQL with business cases
• SQLZoo — SQL exercises

Certifications¶

• Google Data Analytics Certificate (Coursera) — beginner, free with audit
• Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate — intermediate; Python, ML
• IBM Data Analyst Professional
• Tableau Desktop Specialist
• Microsoft DA Associate (PL-300)
• AWS Data Analytics Specialty
• GCP Professional Data Engineer

Topical learning¶

Python¶

• Real Python — pandas
• Pandas docs — User Guide
• Wes McKinney — Python for Data Analysis (free)

SQL¶

• Mode SQL Tutorial
• SQLZoo
• PostgreSQL Tutorial
• LeetCode — Database problems
• HackerRank — SQL
• Use The Index, Luke — SQL performance

Visualization¶

• Tableau Public training
• From Data to Viz — chart selection
• Storytelling with Data podcast

Statistics & ML¶

• StatQuest — Statistics fundamentals
• StatQuest — ML series
• Andrew Ng — Machine Learning (Coursera)
• ISLR with Python — free book + labs

Communication¶

• Storytelling with Data — Cole Knaflic blog
• HBR Data Science articles

Practice platforms¶

• Kaggle Competitions
• DataCamp Projects
• LeetCode Database
• HackerRank — SQL
• Stratascratch — interview-style SQL/Python

YouTube channels¶

• StatQuest with Josh Starmer
• 3Blue1Brown
• Two Minute Papers
• Computerphile
• Ken Jee