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Khan Academy

2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 1 year, 2020 · score 1.5

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Khan Academy's free video series on statistics, covering descriptive statistics, probability, and basic inference through short lessons. Commenters describe it as a gentle starting point for statistics used in data science and machine learning.

Commenters point to it as an accessible way to pick up the statistics needed for ML and analytics, with one saying the first 14 videos were enough to get started.

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  1. Recommendsl_am_wildthingr/learnprogramming2020in “How do I get started with Machine Learning?”▲ 2

    Statistics was the one thing I wasnt familiar with when getting into ml, I just watched the first 14 videos of khan academy's stats playlist and that gave me enough to get started. You could probably do thd same for calc, make sure you get through to the chain rule and understand how it works…

  2. RecommendsSnickypickletonr/learnmachinelearning2020in “Advice for Beginners in ML and Data Science”▲ 1

    First of all, don't be put off by being older than uni age, a lot of people transfer into ml and data science from other careers, there's nothing wrong with it! Looks like you've got the linear algebra part of things covered, which is a major part of ml math, I suggest looking at some stats next…

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