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Getting Started with Python for Data Scientists
With the R Users DC Meetup broadening its topic base to include other statistical programming tools, it seemed only reasonable to write a meta post highlighting some of the best Python tutorials and...
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Python vs R vs SPSS … Can’t All Programmers Just Get Along?
Programmers have long been very proud and loyal with their tools, and often very vocal. This has led to well-contested rivalries and “fights” about which tool is better: emacs or vi; Java or C++; Perl...
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PyData and More Tools for Getting Started with Python for Data Scientists
It would turn out that people are very interested in learning more about python and our last post, “Getting Started with Python for Data Scientists,” generated a ton of comments and recommendations....
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Data Visualization: From Excel to ???
Microsoft Excel Wizard So you’re an excel wizard, you make the best graphs and charts Microsoft’s classic product has to offer, and you expertly integrate them into your business operations. Lately...
View ArticleData Community DC Video Series Kicks Off: Dr. Jesse English Talks NLP and...
We are excited to announce the first in a new series of posts and a brand new initiative: Data Community DC Videos! We are going to film and publish online videos (and separate audio, resources...
View ArticlePyAutoDiff: automatic differentiation for NumPy
We are excited to have a guest post discussing a new tool that is freely available for the Python community. Welcome, Jeremiah Lowin, the Chief Scientist of the Lowin Data Company, to the growing pool...
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Stepping up to Big Data with R and Python: A Mind Map of All the Packages You...
On May 8, we kicked off the transformation of R Users DC to Statistical Programming DC (SPDC) with a meetup at iStrategyLabs in Dupont Circle. The meetup, titled “Stepping up to big data with R and...
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Data Visualization: Teaching Data Viz
Play with individual Data Viz’s like we play with words on the refrigeratorIn the past few months Data Community DC (DC2) has brought together a series of great speakers for its visualization program...
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#DCtech Tweets Visualized in 60 Minutes
Yesterday, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs posted a data set of 65,000 tweets and facebook statuses with the hashtag #dctech and challenged the community to visualize it.These tweets represent two years...
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Python for Data Analysis: The Landscape of Tutorials
Python has been one of the premier general scripting languages, and a major web development language. Numerical and data analysis and scientific programming developed through the packages Numpy and...
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Data Science MD July Recap: Python and R Meetup
For July’s meetup, Data Science MD was honored to have Jonathan Street of NIH and Brian Godsey of RedOwl Analytics come discuss using Python and R for data analysis. Jonathan started off by describing...
View ArticleA Tutorial for Deploying a Django Application that Uses Numpy and Scipy to...
by Sean Patrick Murphy Introduction This longer-than-initially planned article walks one through the process of deploying a non-standard Django application on a virtual instance provisioned not from...
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Flask Mega Meta Tutorial for Data Scientists
Introduction Data science isn’t all statistical modeling, machine learning, and data frames. Eventually, your hard work pays off and you need to give back the data and the results of your analysis;...
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Building Data Apps with Python
Data Community DC and District Data Labs are excited to be offering a Building Data Apps with Python workshop on April 5th, 2014. Python is one of the most popular programming languages for data...
View ArticleNatural Language Processing in Python and R
This is a guest post by Charlie Greenbacker and Tommy Jones. Data comes in many forms. As a data scientist, you might be comfortable working with large amounts of structured data nicely organized in a...
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Confire: A new Python library
Announcing the release of a new open source library: Confire is a simple but powerful configuration scheme that builds on the configuration parsers of Scapy, elasticsearch, Django and others. The basic...
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Building Data Apps with Python on August 23rd
Data Community DC and District Data Labs are excited to be hosting another Building Data Apps with Python workshop on August 23rd. For more info and to sign up, go to http://bit.ly/V4used. There’s...
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Natural Language Analysis with NLTK on October 25th
Data Community DC and District Data Labs are excited to be hosting a Natural Language Analysis with NLTK workshop on October 25th For more info and to sign up, go to http://bit.ly/1pK0pFN....
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Fast Data Applications with Spark & Python Workshop on November 8th
Data Community DC and District Data Labs are excited to be hosting a Fast Data Applications with Spark & Python workshop on November 8th For more info and to sign up, go to...
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Social Network Analysis with Python Workshop on November 22nd
Data Community DC and District Data Labs are hosting a full-day Social Network Analysis with Python workshop on Saturday November 22nd. For more info and to sign up, go to...
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