Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)/Saturday May 31st lecture

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Material for the lecture

For the lecture, you really will need two files. Download both of these to your computer by using right or control click on the link and then using Save as or Save link as. Keep track of where you put the files:


Overview of the day

  • Lecture
    • Our philosophy around data visualization: use the tools you have
    • We're going to walk through some analysis of edits to Harry Potter in Wikipedia, start to finish
    • We'll focus on manipulating data in Python
    • Visualizing things in Google Docs
  • Lunch (not Pizza!)
  • Project based work
    • Project and challenge based continuition of the work in here focusing on Google Docs
    • Matplotlib!
    • Room for you to to work on your projects!
  • Wrap-up!

Lecture outline