Data Hipster

Data Analysis Hierarchy

• Descriptive: Pretty pictures
• Exploratory: Knowing and embracing
• Inferential: Conclusions
• Predictive: the Future
• Causal: Understanding
• Mechanistic: Almost perfect understanding

What You Need to Know

• Python
  • Python Pocket Reference, Mark Lutz
  • Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python, Revised and Expanded edition, by John Guttag (MIT Press, 2013)
  • Python for Data Analysis
    Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython
    By Wes McKinney
  • Google’s Python class: https://developers.google.com/edu/python/
  • python.org beginner’s tutorial: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html
• R
  • R in a Nutshell, Joseph Adler
• MySQL
• Linux
• Linear Algebra
• Statistics
• JavaScript

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