forums.md

Community Presence and Visibility

Data Science communities are extremely critical since it creates a platform for Data Scientists to collaborate, share and learn many aspects in the process.

Focus on few dimensions:

• Competitions
• Datasets
• Notebooks or Kernels
• Discussions
• Blogs
• Publications

Key 10 Forums for Data Scientists to start venturing into:

• Kaggle
• Topcoder
• Codalab
• Machine Hack
• IBM Data Science Community
• Analytics Vidhya
• Tianchi Global from Alibaba
• Youth4work
• Galvanize
• DrivenData

This is just a non-exhaustive list and representation for learning purposes. However, we personally recommend building some time on Kaggle platform and learn over a period of time by demonstrating capability around that.

Outcomes

• Target to write 1 blogs every quarter on forums such as Medium
• Should be able to read, digest and understand research papers / publication papers within 1 yr of learning Data Science skills
• 1-2 Patents or Publications within 2 yrs into Data Science field
• Try to move from Novice to Contributor within 1-2 weeks in Kaggle, and then to Expert level in Kaggle within few months depending your time and participation. Key is to be regular and then continuously learn

Involvement in other Quorums

• KDNuggets
• Data Science Central
• Cross Validated