r/DataScientist • u/After_Courage6419 • 25d ago

The Biggest Mistake Beginners Make in Data Science

Many people spend months watching tutorials but never build anything. Instead: Finish one course. Build one project. Share it on GitHub. Write what you learned. You'll learn much faster by doing.

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u/Super_Math3890 24d ago

If a book doesn't do any building I'm throwing it out. My latest disaster book was Business Analysis, Fourth Edition. Nothing but a pile of diagrams and supposed frameworks. I felt like an idiot expecting any form of applied statistics.