4 Free Platforms to Learn Data Science (Other Than YouTube)
Free platforms to learn Python, SQL, statistics, math and more.
Learning data science for free isn’t hard. There are plenty of free courses and tutorials published on YouTube that you can watch.
However, there are other less-known platforms that can help you complement your learning. Watching video tutorials is good, but learning the latest trends in the field, getting career advice, solving exercises, and engaging with a large data science community is important too.
Here are 4 free platforms that can help you learn data science.
Medium
Medium is a platform where you can find articles about programming, data science, and more. Hundreds of data science articles are published every day to help you learn the latest trends in the field, share career advice, teach SQL, Python, machine learning, and more!
Medium is the perfect place to learn about specific topics. Things got better when they added lists (something similar to YouTube playlists) because they allow writers to organize all their articles by topics, so you can learn something new thoroughly.
I created different lists to organize all my data science articles and Python guides. You can easily find them in the table of content of this article. I’ll be adding more stuff as I publish more articles on Medium.
Discord
Most people believe Discord is only used by gamers. That’s not true at all! Discord has servers with different communities that you can be part of.
Although Discord isn’t the platform to learn data science with tutorials or guides, you can join a discord server to connect with other data science enthusiasts like you. I recommend you to join highly active Python and data science communities to ask questions and get advice quickly (forget about those unanswered StackOverflow questions!)
In this article, I listed the 5 most active Discord servers for Python and Data Science that you can join today. Also, you can join my discord server to get help from me and other experts.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a great website for those interested in learning mathematics and statistics for data science. Although this website isn’t focused on data science, it has many math and statistics lectures that cover most of the stuff you need to become a data scientist.
You can find lectures on statistics such as normal distribution, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, probability, and more. Also, you can find topics in mathematics that are essential for data science such as vectors, matrix, and calculus.
Mode
SQL is a skill that every data scientist must have. There are plenty of guides and video tutorials out there, but one of my favorite places to learn SQL from scratch is Mode.
Mode is a site where you can find lots of guides to learn SQL from scratch. All the guides are well organized, from Basic SQL to SQL Analytics Training.
There you’ll learn basic things like how the SELECT statement works, as well as real-world projects.
That’s it! Happy learning.