I am in 10th grade how can I prepare
myself for data science and machine
learning career?
That's the question I am going to answer
in this short video.
If you are in high school first of all
or a school and you want to plan for a
data science career
first of all it's a very good idea you
should start preparing
right now. Right now it's an age many
people think so I'll go to college then
think
no in like 10th
grade or 8th grade is a perfect time to
start thinking about
what do you want to do long term and if
coding
data science machine learning is
something that you know interests you
that creates interest in you
then you should start doing following
number one
start improving your mathematical and
statistical skills
you are in 10 grade grade 8th grade
whatever you are in high school
you of course have math class pay
special attention
in that class work on as many exercises
as possible
if you don't get satisfactory answers
from your teachers
in school use online resources
nowadays everybody has internet computer
internet access
you can go to Khan academy let's say
or you can go to mathisfun.com these are
some of the excellent resources to learn
mathematics
and you can get your concepts clear
linear algebra,
calculus, descriptive statistics,
inferential statistics these are all
fundamental skills that you will need as
a data scientist
or a machine learning engineer so point
number one
math improve become expert in math
point number two start learning coding
nowadays I know
there is a trend that people start
learning coding in the school itself
you can start learning things on your
own for example I have
very easy python tutorial playlist
which I'm going to link in a video
description below
and those tutorials have exercises at
the end so
watching video is one thing but more
important thing is exercise
so you watch let's say in one week you
watch three videos
do three exercise okay if you do that in
two to three months
you will learn python. Python is super
duper easy
anyone can do it okay no rocket science
even a dumb person can learn it. It is
that easy.
So learn python do
two to three videos two to three
exercises you know every week
and then gradually build up your
knowledge. I know an eighth year
eight-year-old kid
who is doing pretty good in math and
coding
here in US. I also have two of my
subscriber
Rajab and Vedant. Rajab is in ninth grade
Vedant is he past 12th and now he's
going into engineering
they both started learning coding and
data science skills at a very early age
they are doing so good for example Rajab
is doing
pandas and I get questions on my pandas
videos
he's doing all the exercises and
everything you know if I have a pandas
video enough
if i have a sample excel file he will
download and he will practice the code
as per
what I'm teaching in my video so
you can follow so many resources online
and start learning on your own see the
self
drive is very important you have to take
the steps
It's not your parents not your teacher
they will not tell you
that okay you need to learn data science
you need to do this that
It's on you like what is your area of
interest
identify that and start taking action on
your own
don't wait for others. Sometimes people
think okay I will go and
maybe in 12th grade I will start
thinking about what i want to do
and then when i go in college maybe I'll
start learning coding at that time
that that might be too late because we
are now living in a competitive age
where
many kids are learning coding so if
you start early you will have a huge
benefit and
in that age your learning capabilities
are great
okay if you want to learn something if
you want to learn it an
8th or 10th grade you can learn it like
quickly
but if you want to learn it at the age
of 25 it becomes difficult
at 30 or 35 becomes even more difficult
right?
so you have to use the opportunity that
you have
to do whatever you want to do. There is
like a lot of flexibility in today's
world
so use that so mathematics
statistics super important and the
second important thing is
coding and there are other things as
well but don't worry about those
things too much as of now while you're
in school
start focusing on these two skills the
third thing
you can do is start getting involved in
communities
for example good and to Quora or Stack
Overflow or read the questions people
are
trying to ask and try to i identify the
answers on your own and
then try to help people. See helping
people
is very very important for example
Rajab and Vedant they helped me on
my discord server so I'm gonna
post a link of discord server below so
vedant is someone who created all the
chat bots for my server
and Rajab is monitoring he's like an
admin on my
on my server right my discord server has
more than five
I think six thousand people so these
folks are
doing learning some management skills
some network building skills
uh sometimes I talk to them personally
as well so they get that
connection benefit as well so don't
think
that you are young and you can't do
certain things you know
there are living examples the people I'm
talking to are my my subscribers they
you know these are living examples so
try to involve try to get yourself
involved in the things
you know which you might not think
otherwise oh I will be able to do this
actually you can do amazing things in
your life all right? So I
hope this video answers some of the
questions you had in your head
if you have any further question there
is a comment box below
just post it okay I will try my best to
answer that question
thank you and I wish you best of luck.