Day 1

Today

• • Course overview and basic framing

  • Intro to the basic tools we will be using

  • Demonstration of procedure for doing the reading assignments

For Next Time

• • Do the Value of Data assignment

• Setup your environment

  • Read ThinkStats2 Chapter 1, and do exercise 1 by filling out the ipython notebook chap01ex.ipynb (this will be in your forked version of the repo).  Read this page for more information on what to do and how to submit your assignment (this will be demonstrated in class as well).  Use this link to turn in your assignment.

Course Overview and Basic Framing

See these slides.

Overview of Value of Data Assignment

We'll go over this together.

Quick Tour of the Basic Tools

• • Anaconda  (list of all packages is here)

• ThinkStats2

  • Jupyter notebook (see here for examples and tutorials).  Note: formerly known as ipython Notebook (a gallery of notebooks).

  • numpy (additional resources)

  • Pandas (additional resources)

• Scikit-learn

  • Matplotlib, Seaborn, and ThinkPlot

• Kaggle

Overview of Reading Assignments

I will demonstrate how to do, and then turn in the reading assignments.

Next Steps

Start doing the steps labeled "For Next Time" at the top of this page.