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Happy New Year!

This year you’re probably looking at a shift in your career, learning a new skill and making more effort with personal development. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is a predicted 36% growth of Data Scientists between 2021 and 2031. 

If you are looking into getting into the world of Data, there are readily available resources that you can benefit from online. From books, courses, cheat sheets, communities, and more. 

If you are looking for learning resources, have a look at these:

• Learn Data Science From These GitHub Repositories
• Free Data Management with Data Science Learning with CS639
• How Much Math Do You Need in Data Science?
• What Google Recommends You do Before Taking Their Machine Learning or Data Science Course

Another great way to learn is by being part of a community. This article in particular focuses on Slack communities. Slack is a messaging app that helps to connect people and helps the team work in a unified manner. 

You can join this list of Data Communities on Slack in 2023.

Datatalks.Club

As it mentions in the name, it’s everything data. This can be from data analytics, data science, and machine learning. There are various Slack channels such as #book-of-the-week, #career, #datascience, #events, #ai-memes-for-ai-peeps, and more. 

They have weekly events which you are free to join and a podcast with up to 12 seasons. 

If you would like to join the Datatalks.Club Slack community, click on this link: Datatalks.Club Slack

Data Science Salon

Data Science Salon is a unique conference that has become a diverse community with a team full of senior Data Scientists, Machine Learning engineers, and more. They aim to bring tech professionals together, to help them network, grow and learn from one another with possible innovative solutions. 

If you would like to join the Data Science Salon Slack community, click on this link: Data Science Salon Slack

Data Reliability Engineering Community

This community on Slack is more finely granulated to a specific problem in Data Science. There is a wide range of data engineers and scientists who network and communicate in-depth about data reliability problems and the best practices on how to overcome them.

If this is an aspect of Data Science that you want to focus on or need more direction, this will be a valuable slack channel. 

If you would like to join the Data Reliability Engineering Community, click on this link: Data Reliability Engineering Community Slack.

datascientists

A community that speaks on Data science, data warehouses, BI-related conversations, topics, and more. You will network with others in the field, and learn from their mistakes as they will learn from yours. 

If you want to join the datascientists community, click on this link: datascientists slack.

AI-ML-Data Science Lovers

If you are looking for something a bit more chilled and laid-back, the AI-ML-Data Science Lovers slack community is for you. It is a community full of people having general conversations about data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

It is an excellent way to keep in the loop on other people's opinions and expand your knowledge base. 

If you want to join the AI-ML-Data Science Lovers community, click on this link: AI-ML-Data Science Lovers Slack.

Open Data Science Community

A community that focuses on everything Data Science related. You will be in the loop of the best Data Science articles to read, tutorials that will benefit your learning process, code sharing and overall advice. Designed to connect Data Science professionals from all over the world.

If you would like to join the Open Data Science Community, click on this link: Open Data Science Community Slack.

Papers with Code

Papers with Code is a free and open resource that provides Machine Learning papers, code, datasets, methods and evaluation tables. With the community, you will gain access to quality resources to help your learning process. You will move from learning the theory of Data Science to applying your skills and developing them. 

If you would like to join the Paper with Code Community, click on this link: Paper with Code Slack.

KaggleNoobs

If you’re aiming to thrive as a Data scientist, you will need to practice your coding skills. The only way for you to test your skills is through projects. As a beginner, Kaggle will be your best friend. Therefore, it will be advisable to join the Kaggle community to help you with unanswered questions and guidance on particular aspects. 

If you want to join the KaggleNoobs Community, click on this link: KaggleNoobs Slack. 

Conclusion

Slack communities are not only great learning resources, but they also help beginners ease into a completely new sector. You can learn from other people's learning processes, and projects, as well as book and course recommendations.
 
 
Nisha Arya is a Data Scientist and Freelance Technical Writer. She is particularly interested in providing Data Science career advice or tutorials and theory based knowledge around Data Science. She also wishes to explore the different ways Artificial Intelligence is/can benefit the longevity of human life. A keen learner, seeking to broaden her tech knowledge and writing skills, whilst helping guide others.