Summary of The ONE weird technique I used to learn DATA SCIENCE in 3 months

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The YouTuber talks about his struggles to learn data science and how he discovered a memory technique called the memory palace. The technique involves creating vivid imagery around an object or concept to remember it, and then placing it along a path in a particular order. He explains how to use the memory palace technique to memorize and learn the basics of data science with tabular data. This method is highly effective in retaining a large amount of information quickly, allowing you to progress a lot faster. The speaker challenges the audience to memorize some common Pandas functions before leveraging the memory palace technique to create a familiar path with vivid imagery that helps to memorize a large amount of information. The speaker discusses how to revise and remember the memory path once it's created.

• 00:00:00 In this section, the YouTuber talks about his struggles to learn data science and how he discovered a memory technique called the memory palace. He was inspired by an eight-time world memory champion, Dominic O'Brien, who could memorize 54 different decks of cards in perfect order. The technique involves creating vivid imagery around an object or concept to remember it, and then placing it along a path in a particular order. He gives an example of his experience using this technique to remember the command 'import pandas as pd' in Python. This method is highly effective in retaining a large amount of information quickly, allowing you to progress a lot faster.
• 00:05:00 In this section, the speaker explains how to use the memory palace technique to memorize and learn the basics of data science with tabular data. The memory palace technique involves visualizing a familiar place and placing items to be remembered in specific locations within the place. Once familiar with the basic concepts of data science, one can use this technique to memorize key commands and data types for pandas. The speaker then walks through nine different lines of code used to leverage pandas, including importing pandas, reading in data, using the "tail" and "head" functions to view data, calculating summary statistics with "describe", viewing unique values with "unique", concatenating and grouping data sets.
• 00:10:00 In this section, the speaker quickly goes over some common Pandas functions such as df.head, df.tail, df.groupby, pdconcat, and df.describe. The speaker challenges the audience to memorize these concepts before leveraging the memory palace technique. The speaker creates an excel spreadsheet with five columns: id, description, code, image, and path. Each row describes a Pandas function and provides a description, code snippet, and image associated with a journey through a location. Using this method, the audience can combine visual imagery with a journey that they associate with to recall the Pandas functions more efficiently.
• 00:15:00 endless. In this section, the speaker explains how he associates visual imagery with lines of code in order to remember them better. He gives a detailed example of a story involving characters from Kung Fu Panda, Harry Potter, and Captain Marvel, and asks viewers to remember the story and connect it to specific lines of code. This technique can be used to create a familiar path with vivid imagery that helps to memorize a large amount of information.
• 00:20:00 In this section, the speaker discusses how to revise and remember the memory path once it's created. For the first week, the speaker revises the memory path every day without looking at the code to remember all the different lines of code associated with that particular path. After the first week, the revision can be done every second day or every week. As the story is vividly entrenched in the memory, it only needs to be revised once or twice a year. By leveraging this one weird technique, the speaker was able to learn deep learning, machine learning, data science, and discrete optimization much faster, and he invites the audience to try it out as well.