henrysxie / datascience-bootcamp-part-one

Lesson plan for Data Science Bootcamp at GA Dec 2015

Datascience Bootcamp

Objective

Build solid foundation in Python for use in data science.

Instructor

• name: Henry Xie
• email: [e-mail]
• 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