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Someone asked me recently how he could get the knowledge and the skills necessary to become a Data Scientist. There are different ways to learn data science, go to university, follow a bachelor or master in data science, get into a Bootcamp program, or learn it by yourself. Nowadays a lot of material is available on the internet, often for free, to learn the skills necessary for Data Science. There are three primary skills needed for Data Science 1) A programming language used in the data ecosystem, typically one of Python/R or Scala 2) SQL, for data manipulation and extraction, and 3) Statistics & Machine Learning. Python Assuming this is your first programming language, Python is an excellent language to learn. It is a general-purpose programming language with a broad ecosystem of data libraries. It is also relatively straight forward to learn and is often taught in introductory classes for computer science. It is good to start with a general introduction to computer science, rat