Original article written by Stephen Gossett on Built In
There’s real-world data science, and there’s Kaggle-competition data science.
Among the many differences: In the real world, the data you need for a desired project might not be immediately available — if it even exists at all.
Luckily, that’s not the case if you’re looking for data sets for practicing new skills. If anything, depending on the category of work, you might face a paradox-of-choice problem, as the number of free, publicly available data sets has only proliferated in recent years.
With that in mind, we reached out to two senior-level data science instructors — Joe Eddy, of the Metis bootcamp in New York City, and Raja Iqbal, founder of Data Science Dojo — to get an overview of the free data sets best suited for a variety of competencies, including product purchasing analysis, ad-click prediction, image classification, sentiment analysis and time-series analysis.
Here’s what they recommend…
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