How to Craft Your Python Like Poetry

Hi there! This is our 10th weekly newsletter! Summer is flying by. To celebrate this tenth edition, we have a special contribution from a DataCamp user. [DataCamp]( DataCamp Weekly Issue #10 ― August 15, 2017 Hi there! This is our 10th weekly newsletter! Summer is flying by. To celebrate this tenth edition, we have a special contribution from a DataCamp user. More on that below. We’ll also talk about the Seaborn package, Python functions, OpenAI, coding poetically and more! 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 [Python Seaborn Tutorial For Beginners]( Often seen as the best data visualization package for Python, Seaborn is a beautiful and easy way to visualize data. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of data visualization with Seaborn. [datacamp.com]( [Python Functions Tutorial]( Functions are an essential part of a data scientist’s toolbox. Working with data to solve problems, you will need to write your own functions to move forward. This tutorial will show you how to do just that, share with you some best practices, and link to further useful resources. [datacamp.com]( [Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis in R]( User bhaskarjit has completed close to 30 DataCamp courses, and wrote this great post on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and we’re happy to share it with everyone. DEA is used to measure performance of similar units across an organization and is popular in operations research. Check it out! If you’d like to share your writing to the rest of the DataCamp community, feel free to reach out via Slack or Twitter! [analyticsdefined.wordpress.com]( [Data Science Primer: Basic Concepts for Beginners]( A handy collection of concise introductory data science tutorials including the difference between data mining and statistics, supervised v. unsupervised learning, and the types of pattern in data. [kdnuggets.com]( [Can you help radiologists detect lung cancer earlier and save lives?]( This DrivenData competition has a $100k reward, and more importantly will save lives. The goal of this challenge is to help put deep learning in the hands of practicing radiologists, detecting lung cancer nodules in early screening CT scans and displaying the results in useful ways for clinical use. Early lung cancer detection has a huge impact on survival rates. Great opportunity to do good with data science. [blog.drivendata.org]( In The News [Trump's Android and iPhone tweets, one year later]( DataCamp instructor David Robinson made quite the impact last year by releasing his Trump Tweets data analysis. This is a follow up with better data and equally insightful. [varianceexplained.org]( [10 Significant Visualisation Developments: January to June 2017]( Interested in seeing who the best data visualizers are and what do they produce? Check out this top 10 list of data visualizations for the first half of 2017. Some very beautiful stuff. [visualisingdata.com]( [OpenAI bot beats world's best at Dota 2]( Elon Musk’s OpenAI made the news this week by creating a bot which beat the world’s best at Dota 2 (1 v. 1). The bot learned the game from scratch by self-play. Unlike Go or Chess this game is not turn-based, which is a first in AI research. [blog.openai.com]( [Data Science Is Not Taught At Universities - And Here Is Why]( Interesting post that sparked a lot of discussion. The writer highlights the difference between what is taught in school and data science in the real world. [linkedin.com]( Elsewhere - [What New York Subway Stations Actually Look Like]( - [Craft Your Python Like Poetry]( - [How do you read math-heavy machine learning papers?]( Jobs - [Technical Business Analyst, Investec Asset Management, London]( - [Senior Data Scientist, Colaberry Data Analytics, Dallas, TX]( - [Data Scientist - Advanced Analytics, Sao Paulo]( --------------------------------------------------------------- That's all for now. Have a great week! DataCamp Inc. 2067 Massachusetts avenue Cambridge MA 02140 [Unsubscribe](