switching from web development to data science

Python

COMMUNITY

SALARY

Podcasts

Newsletters

People to Follow

JOBS

Django R

Web Developer Data Scientist

Ruby

COMPANIES

SAS

2016 Dice Tech Salary Survey:Average Salary For High Paying Skills And

Experience

$109,782

WANT TO LEARN PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE?Join over 740,000 data science enthusiasts at DataCamp!

SWITCHING FROM WEB DEV TO DATA SCIENCEThanks to the tools and concepts that were originally built by scientists and sysadmins, Python’s popularity is on the rise in the data science industry and Pythonistas are looking to make a career switch to data science. DataCamp took a closer look at

what it really takes to make the switch.

WEB DEVELOPMENT DATA SCIENCE

REFERENCES

- https://youtu.be/wi-1UGYQiHM- https://www.dezyre.com/article/python-for-data-science-vs-python-for-web-development/177- http://www.dice.com/salary- https://www.springboard.com/learning-paths/web-development-python-django/learn/- https://www.udemy.com/web-programming-with-python/- http://blog.udacity.com/2014/12/24-websites-resources-web-development.html- http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/tp/web-designer-job-skills.htm- http://usersnap.com/blog/web-development-newsletters/- https://www.codeschool.com/blog/2015/11/20/10-web-development-podcasts-you-should-be-subscribed-to/- http://usersnap.com/blog/web-development-podcasts/- http://pythoncentral.io/the-best-python-ides-you-can-use-for-development/- http://noeticforce.com/best-python-ide-for-programmers-windows-and-mac

WEB FRAMEWORKS - LIBRARIES

IDE

Languages

What?

R, SAS, JuliaHTML, CSS, Ruby, PHP, ASP.NET

Learn Python, R and data science at your own pace and in the comfort of your browser with DataCamp’s fun video lessons and interactive coding challenges!

www.DataCamp.com

SQLJava, JavaScript, C++, C, Scala

Skillset

Version Control (Git)Databases

Predictive Modeling • Distributed computing •

Math, stats & machine learning • Story-telling and visualization •

Clean, massage and organize (big) data

Design, code and modify websites

$122,383$82,653

LinkedIn• Hired

• Guru

Data Stories •Not So Standard Deviations •

Becoming a Data Scientist • Data Skeptic •

Partially Derivative •

• Boagworld• CTRL+Click • Let’s Make Mistakes• The Web Ahead• Happy Monday

Python Weekly •Data Science Weekly •

Data Elixir • KD Nuggets •

• Pycoders Weekly• Responsive Design Weekly• Webdesigner Depot Newsletter• SitePoint Newsletter

• Armin Ronacher• Jannis Leidel

• Alex Gaynor• Jacob Kaplan-Moss

• Carl Meyer

Jake Vanderplas •Sebastian Raschka •

Gael Varoquaux •Andreas Mueller •

Randy Olson •

LEARN

“There’s a culture gap: scientists come from Jupyter and web devs maybe come from Saturn [...] But the fact that we can work together is our strength”

- Gaël Varoquaux

• Graphic Design • Web Application Security

• Internet Services• Communication

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

PRACTICE

$126,249$109,017

$115,484 $104,912

KD Nuggets •Data Elixir •

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