henrysxie/datascience-bootcamp-part-one

Lesson plan for Data Science Bootcamp at GA Dec 2015

Jupyter Notebook

Datascience Bootcamp

Objective

Build solid foundation in Python for use in data science.

Instructor

name: Henry Xie
email: henrysxie@gmail.com
website: simplefractal.com

Agenda with Objectives

Day 1
Day 2

What do you need?

Terminal for Mac users, Command Prompt for Windows users
Python 2.7+ (Run python --version in your Terminal or Command Prompt to see what you have installed)
Anacondas (see setup instructions below)

Install Anaconda

This is a package of Python libraries you need to do Data Science
Install Anaconda with python 2.7
Instructions for Mac
Instructions for Windows
Open a NEW terminal window and setup your environment using the conda command line tool:

conda create --name datascience-bootcamp pandas matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook
source activate datascience-bootcamp
ipython -pylab
>>> import pandas