Introduction to Python for Data Science
Who’s Karlijn? ● Data Science Journalist @DataCamp ● Master’s degrees in Information Management, Literature & Linguistics ● Worked as a junior big data developer with Scala, Hadoop & Spark ● Love for literature, languages, data science & big data ● … I also love to talk, so please stop me whenever you have any questions! @willems_karlijn
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Data Science - Useful Links ● Data Science Industry Infographic ● Ba le of the Data Science Venn Diagrams ● …
Useful Links ● Khan Academy ● Python Statistics For Data Science Resources ● Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1) ● Scipy Tutorial: Linear Algebra ● Algorithms with Stanford Unversity ● Machine Learning with Stanford University (Andrew Ng) ● Tom Mitchell, “Machine Learning”
Useful Links ● Fundamentals of Computer Science (EdX course) ● End-to-end Development Process (Article) ● Intro to Python for Data Science Course (DataCamp)
Resources
Useful Links ● Introduction to Databases with Stanford University ● Principles of Database Management (Youtube Series) ● Alejandro Vaisman & Esteban Zimányi, “Data Warehouse Systems” ● SQL with DataCamp (soon!) ● Introduction to Databases in Python
Useful Links ● Martin Fowler, “Continuous Integration”
Useful Links ● Introduction to Apache Spark (and follow-up courses on EdX) ● Hadoop: The Definitive Guide ● Martin Odersky, “Programming in Scala”
Useful Links ● Kaggle ● DrivenData ● Meetup ● Data.World ● Github Tutorial You don’t need to start from scratch!
Useful Links ● Galvanize ● Quantbros ● General Assembly ● LinkedIn ● Your network! ● …
Useful Links ● DataTau ● Reddit - /r/datascience, /r/python, … ● KD Nuggets ● DataCamp Community ● FiveThirtyEight ● Stack Overflow ● ….
People To Follow ● DJ Patil, Chief Data Scientist with the White House. ● Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets President, #Analytics, #BigData, #DataMining, #DataScience expert, KDD & SIGKDD co-founder, was Chief Scientist at 2 startups, part-time philosopher. ● Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist @OReillyMedia, Program Director of @strataconf & @OReillyAI. He is the host of the O’Reilly Data Show podcast. ● Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist of Baidu; Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS faculty. ● As a top Big Data influencer, Kirk Borne, the Principal Data Scientist at @BoozAllen, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, ♡ Data Science, is definitely worth following!
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Introduction to Python for Data Science

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    Who’s Karlijn? ● DataScience Journalist @DataCamp ● Master’s degrees in Information Management, Literature & Linguistics ● Worked as a junior big data developer with Scala, Hadoop & Spark ● Love for literature, languages, data science & big data ● … I also love to talk, so please stop me whenever you have any questions! @willems_karlijn
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    DataCamp - LearningBy Doing ✓ Interactive learning for R, Python 
 & Data Science
 
 ✓ Over 730,000 learners, 70% working 
 professionals ✓ +1000 business groups
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    Data Science -Useful Links ● Data Science Industry Infographic ● Ba le of the Data Science Venn Diagrams ● …
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    Useful Links ● KhanAcademy ● Python Statistics For Data Science Resources ● Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1) ● Scipy Tutorial: Linear Algebra ● Algorithms with Stanford Unversity ● Machine Learning with Stanford University (Andrew Ng) ● Tom Mitchell, “Machine Learning”
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    Useful Links ● Fundamentalsof Computer Science (EdX course) ● End-to-end Development Process (Article) ● Intro to Python for Data Science Course (DataCamp)
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    Useful Links ● Introductionto Databases with Stanford University ● Principles of Database Management (Youtube Series) ● Alejandro Vaisman & Esteban Zimányi, “Data Warehouse Systems” ● SQL with DataCamp (soon!) ● Introduction to Databases in Python
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    Useful Links ● MartinFowler, “Continuous Integration”
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    Useful Links ● Introductionto Apache Spark (and follow-up courses on EdX) ● Hadoop: The Definitive Guide ● Martin Odersky, “Programming in Scala”
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    Useful Links ● Kaggle ●DrivenData ● Meetup ● Data.World ● Github Tutorial You don’t need to start from scratch!
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    Useful Links ● Galvanize ●Quantbros ● General Assembly ● LinkedIn ● Your network! ● …
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    Useful Links ● DataTau ●Reddit - /r/datascience, /r/python, … ● KD Nuggets ● DataCamp Community ● FiveThirtyEight ● Stack Overflow ● ….
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    People To Follow ●DJ Patil, Chief Data Scientist with the White House. ● Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets President, #Analytics, #BigData, #DataMining, #DataScience expert, KDD & SIGKDD co-founder, was Chief Scientist at 2 startups, part-time philosopher. ● Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist @OReillyMedia, Program Director of @strataconf & @OReillyAI. He is the host of the O’Reilly Data Show podcast. ● Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist of Baidu; Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS faculty. ● As a top Big Data influencer, Kirk Borne, the Principal Data Scientist at @BoozAllen, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, ♡ Data Science, is definitely worth following!
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