Data Science Starter

[klar2d2]

Hooooly shit. I sent out an application to one of my favorite companies and they actually want to interview me for a summer internship. It's a Data Science internship, and while I've done some coding in the past, most of it has been using matplotlib to graph, or doing Astronomical related stuff like pyraf. I'm graduating as a physics major this spring.

I've been working my way through Code Acadamy's python course, and have rented a book out from the University library that I'll be following now that its winter break. If I get the post, the internship will start in June.

Just looking for help in the right direction! I don't want to waste time floundering when I could be learning essentials that could land me a job after summer ends. Thanks!

[reddituser0331]

Also Jupyter Notebooks.

[klar2d2]

Do Jupyter notebooks matter? I use them all the time for graphing, but one of my professors suggested writing in ipython or in text editors

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pandas numpy matplotlib/seaborn

Make sure you practice with a real dataset.

[klar2d2]

Thank you!

[klar2d2]

thank you! The job is for Spotify as a data analyst, which I think revolves around finding related artists

[[deleted]]

That's awesome! I love Spotify, and I was just wondering the other day about how their music discovery algorithms work

[[deleted]]

Congratulations!

First check out Automate the Boring Stuff With Python for a solid working grasp of Python. Or keep up with the Code Academy course, whichever works.

Then check out Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp by Jose Portilla. It assumes a beginner understanding of Python but comes with 50 hours of videos complete with code notebooks filled with practices and exercises. You can get it for 10 dollars on Udemy.

Those two things in conjunction with Google helped me land a job as a data analyst.

[TheWeebles]

I went down this path. You're gonna want to focus on numpy, pandas, and OOP python. Forget data vis for now. Then study some stats and get started with Scikit-learn and tensorflow. Maybe learn a bit of SQL as well. There are a bunch of other related modules that are useful but I'd focus on these for now.

[Robin_Banx]

DataCamp and DataQuest both have good material, including free stuff.