DataCamp Weekly: Practice mode, Slack group, Web scraping, text mining & more

Practice mode, Slack group, Web scraping, text mining and more! [DataCamp]( DataCamp Weekly Issue #5 ― July 11, 2017 Hi everyone, greetings from DataCamp! We had a great time last week at the useR conference in Brussels! We launched some exciting features this week and have some great content to share. We’re talking about our new Practice mode, Slack group, Web scraping, text mining and more! Enjoy! Like what you’re seeing? Forward to a friend! Received this email from a friend? [Sign up]( for a DataCamp account to to receive a dose of data science every Tuesday. --------------------------------------------------------------- Projects & Resources [Introducing Daily Practice Mode]( Practice is crucial when learning data science. This is why we are proud to announce Daily Practice. Earn XP by completing 5 or more challenges a day. How long of a daily streak can you hold? [datacamp.com]( [DataCamp Slack group: A community for learners]( The Slack group for DataCamp subscribers is a place to ask questions, get advice, share your feedback, and get to know your fellow learners! If you haven't already, join by clicking the Slack logo on the top right of your dashboard. [Join the conversation!]( [datacamp.com]( [Seeing Theory]( DataCamp subscriber Matthew Reader shared this beautiful website in our Slack group. This project makes statistics more accessible through beautiful, interactive visualization of statistical concepts. [brown.edu]( [How to Scrape Images from Google]( Quick tutorial by Florian Teschner on scraping images from Google using R and a little Javascript. Great resource to spark a cool project idea. [flovv.github.io]( [Text Mining Stack Overflow Questions]( To celebrate the launch of her new book, Julia Silge digs into text data from Stack Overflow. Using topic modeling and a Kaggle dataset, Julia outlines how to extract insights from unstructured text data from questions posted on Stack Overflow. [juliasilge.com]( In The News [How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation]( Biologist Jessica Flack shows us how nature can be a great source of inspiration when designing neural networks. Fascinating article that describes how neurons in organisms make a decision. [quantamagazine.com]( [7 myths about AI that are holding your business back]( AI is bound to have a huge impact on how businesses are run. But here are 7 myths that you need to acknowledge beforehand. [venturebeat.com]( [Introducing Tidygraph]( Thomas Lin Pedersen introduces his new package: tidygraph. From Thomas himself: “tidygraph is an entry into the tidyverse that provides a tidy framework for all things relational (networks/graphs, trees, etc.)”. [data-imaginist.com]( [Deploying Data Science Projects [Whitepaper]]( Our friends at Continuum Analytics are introducing a new product whitepaper, Anaconda Project, to better deploy your data science projects and spend more time on what matters most: exploring and analyzing data. [kdnuggets.com]( Elsewhere - [Space, Time and Groceries]( - [Regex Cross­word]( - [Assessing the Accuracy of our models (R Squared, Adjusted R Squared, RMSE, MAE, AIC)]( - [Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com]( Jobs - [R/Shiny and JavaScript Developer, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), remote OK]( - [Data Scientist, Legalist, Bay Area]( - [Capital Markets Data Analyst, Accenture, Bengalore]( Events - [Strata Data Conference, Beijing - July 13-15]( - [Life After Galvanize: Careers in Data Science, NYC - July 27]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Correlation or Causation? See something interesting? Share via [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Twitter](. That's all for now. Have a great week! DataCamp Inc. 2067 Massachusetts avenue Cambridge MA 02140 [Unsubscribe](