Many thanks go to John Downs for giving such a great speech!
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NYC Data Science Academy is offering two relative courses:
Sign-Up: Introduction to Python
Sign-Up: Data Science with Python: Machine Learning
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Meetup Announcement:
Speaker:
John Downs, Dean and our Python Instructor. As Dean, he coordinates the development of programs and mentors other instructors. He also organizes the Python for Data Analysis meetup. His research interests include robotics with work on collaborative navigation using artificial intelligence. He has many years of experience as a software engineer in industry and is a member of the ACM and IEEE.
Outline:
- The talk started with a very brief overview of the Python language for those who might not be familiar. - Then we dived into using Pandas to do some analysis and visualization.
- We broke into groups to give everyone a chance to apply the material from the talk.
Preparation:
Bring your favorite editor and python shell. Install pandas with 'pip install pandas'.
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Other Useful Info Link:
Notebook: https://github.com/jdowns/Presentations/tree/master/nyc_open_data
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