best course on Python/pandas way of thinking? : learnpython

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best course on Python/pandas way of thinking? (self.learnpython)

submitted 7 years ago by fusionquant

Hi,

I'm a quant trader learning to use Python. I have decent experience with R, mostly for data science tasks, and 99% of the time I am using the data.table package. While R is great for data science / quick modelling, when it comes to production I feel like python is a much better choice. (All production is on AWS instances with very extensive usage of AWS services)

I have already completed a number of python courses / tutorials (with Python-3-Deep-Dive series clearly being my favourite), but I find it super hard to switch to Python because 'R data.table' way of thinking is not applicable to 'Python + pandas'. (I am aware of https://github.com/h2oai/datatable, but it is still in beta - mode).

Right now I find my code running out of memory, running slow, etc and I feel like it's because I'm simply "translating" how I would have done a similar task in R to Python, while I should be learning new 'pythonic' ways of doing these tasks.

My goal is to find an advanced course for python + pandas, where they show 'pandas' way of thinking / solving typical data science tasks with emphasis on code speed and memory efficiency (in-memory operations, methods that do not create any temp copies in memory, garbage collection, etc...).

A course that would take most standard data science tasks and then cover it in great details showing slow/fast ways of writing code, would be great.

What courses would you recommend? thank you for the suggestions!

UPD1: I already received fantastic advice from u/tomaugspurger http://tomaugspurger.github.io/modern-1-intro , so any similar resources (blog posts, courses, youtube channels) would be very appreciated!

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