My goal this week is to keeping reading Nathan Yau's book Visualize This. I have finished the first chapter. So far, so good. Things have come a long way in the past couple years. My previous work in entry level data analysis (before being sidetracked with children) involved little more than Excel and SQL.
Big data is a heavy buzz word these days that can mean any number of things. I have been thinking about what hard skills are applicable to the data analysis field. While I was fairly decent at and enjoyed math throughout school, but it is not my background. Statistics looks rather daunting. Learning R seems to be a necessity so I am starting there. So my next goal is to install R and find a dataset I can begin to play with. There are lots of R tutorials out there but I will stick with Yau's on Flowing Data since it seems directed at rank beginner's like me.
There is so much to learn. One must begin somewhere!
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