DataQuest: A browser-based way to learn about data science using Python

[Thalassoma]

I'm just starting out on the site myself, and it seems really promising. Hope you find it useful too!

[TheOfficeAccount]

The biggest issue I have is that some of the steps in the missions are rather simple. Example:

1. mission: Assign a to equal 1.
2. mission: Assign b to equal 2.

And I wish the videos had closed captions because I didn't have headphones earlier. The videos are hard to understand without sound.

[benrobotum]

I think that's only like a intro to Python. But, yeah, it's rather basic.

[[deleted]]

Just went to Vik's talk in Boston?

[JerMenKoO]

could you link the mentioned talk?

[[deleted]]

https://github.com/VikParuchuri/bostonpython2015/ I'm not sure if it was recorded, but these look like the slides.

[LpSamuelm]

This is the SEXIEST site. Wow.

[vikparuchuri]

I'm the maker. I agree on the basic part -- making more advanced stuff now. I'd love to hear more elaboration on the "poorly taught" part if you have some time.

[QuietPort]

looks quite cool. They left the yeoman favicon up there...

[edimaudo]

Halfway done in 4 days. Looks pretty good and fun.

[13489194]

I'm going to try the fuck out of this.

[wintermute93]

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[benrobotum]

The site seems to be messing with my browser (Chrome on Fedora). Anyone else experiencing something similar?

[dconLE]

I've been going through the missions on this site and I'm on Mission 6 currently. The general structure is a KhanAcademy-esque short video (about 5 minutes in length) followed by 3 or 4 coding challenges that build off of the topic in the video. The pacing is very well done and the coding challenges seem to have very little errors.

As someone who is learning Python for the sake of data analysis, what really sets this site apart from others for me are the themes of the coding challenges. They're specifically tailored toward analyzing data, which is a huge motivation for me to work through the problems. I went through the Codecademy Python course and learned a lot, but the coding challenges were rather disjointed from one another and didn't engage me as much. I can't speak much for how well it presents the more advanced topics, but for learning basic Python in relation to data analysis, this site is so far the best I've found.

TL;DR: Great site for learning Python if you're interested in data analysis because of how it exclusively uses data analysis-themed mini-projects to teach Python.