“I don’t know where to start” I recently spoke to about a dozen aspiring data scientists, and a very common concern was, “There are just so many different programming languages, and so many different software packages and databases. I feel overwhelmed, and I don’t know where to start!” In this post, I will explain everything you need to learn to get started as a data “hacker.” What is a data hacker? Harlan Harris and Vincent Granville have both written articles about the different…