Programming for data science

Overview

Python

R

SQL

Other

The more software engineering skills you can learn, the better. However, when starting out, your time is probably best spent focusing on one of Python or R, and SQL. Here, we'll briefly touch on some other useful tools to learn, roughly in terms of importance.

• git: important for collaborating with others and saving your work in version control.
• Javascript: nice to have when working with design changes.