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No bothersome problem is too small! If you'd like to share, we would be eager to look into this. Reach us through the app or at osm-questions [a] lyft.com.

Lyft study shows crucial OpenStreetMap road attributes are fresh and high quality in 30 North American cities, as compared to groundtruth. Blog post and paper detail the process, m…

Of people who use these tools, only a very small percentage of them also build said tools. Which makes sense. In industry, companies want to build meaningful products and data sets…

I'm curious about the audience here - What career goal is driving your interest in learning Data Science?

Deterrent roadblocks are a huge problem. In fact, it's the primary reason education can't happen solely through a book or video lecture series. Students need mentorship to gain mot…

Start here: http://bit.ly/uwintrodatascience . It's the first bullet.

You'll find R resources here: https://github.com/datasciencemasters/go/blob/master/r-resou... The OSDSM maintains a focus on python resources.

I took six months off for the OSDSM. I am very aware that it was a luxury to do so. I had to take loans, move out of my apartment, and I studied 10 hours per day. If you weren't wo…

The truthful meta-answer which you probably don't want to hear: We only have a statistical likelihood (of dubious confidence) of what will transpire in the future. We have no knowl…

It's worthwhile to explain why many people find the OSDSM useful. The topics listed do indeed require depth to acquire an adequate proficiency to understand and command them. The O…

Try CodeAcademy and CS106a (how I learned programming at Stanford) https://www.udemy.com/cs-106a-programming-methodology I've started cataloging some of the best beginning resource…

Sure, you can learn to use a technology and still be braindead or poor at analysis. This is an applied curriculum with a focus on specific technologies that enable an analysis-bent…

Working with a technology that is more highly documented is better when you're starting out. Especially when you're teaching yourself and StackOverflow is your TA. Python is very a…

This is why I'm so in love with pandas (pandas.pydata.org) -- Wes McKinney did the world a favor creating a library with powerful, manipulable multidimensional data structures