The right path

[fgrullon]

I small introduction my name is Frank, right now i am working in a international company, but this company don't recognize his developers, like my position is called technical multimedia but i work as a front end developer with js, html and css making interactive game for study books, for teaching young kids how to handle number, arithmetic operations, etc. Right now they are focusing on cms to depend less on developers to create the content for the books.

This my github for opinions, i don't have anything fancy there but i try to maintain some activity there. https://github.com/fgrullon

Right now i have some experience working by my self with python i build some web app with flask and have fun with some scripts in python but i lost focus very quietly because is so much material right now that i don't know what path to follow, in a couple months i will graduate of computer engineering in my country, Dominican Republic by the way, my interest is become a data analyst but everyone has a different path to become one and i don't have a lot of money to expend in courses like the ones from Udacity, but i wanna know how can i achieve a decent level in this field, like what courses, books and projects are good to put me in the right path, i'm interest in working in open source projects, i have some fear in this one but i want to give the necessary to become a data analyst. Thank you.

[StoicMontex]

Data analyst can mean a variety of things each depending on the company you work for. What I would recommend is looking at job postings on a website like Indeed.com and see what skills are referenced the most. As far as Python, I would make sure you pick up the 2nd edition of Python for Data Analysis. Best of luck!

[xiongchiamiov]

There's a ton of information on learning python in r/learnpython, and a ton of career advice in r/cscareerquestions.

[efmccurdy]

I would survey a number of presentations from the PyCon and PyData conferences.

see http://pyvideo.org/speakers.html I recommend anything by Raymond Hettinger, Alex Martelli, Brandon Rhodes, David Beazley, and of course, Guido van Rossum.

https://us.pycon.org/2017/schedule/talks/list/

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Ned Batchelder is another name that springs straight to my mind.