DaveBackus / Data_Bootcamp

Materials for a course at NYU Stern using Python to study economic and financial data.
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Add intro #3

Closed DaveBackus closed 9 years ago

DaveBackus commented 9 years ago

Not like spreadsheets, they go in order:

input data plot data compute mean compute standard deviation run regression

Each of these components has a number of steps, but the idea is to run through them in order. Like a novel, but not like a spreadsheet, which does everything at once.

Hard way

Codecademy

Coursera

Comments on each, strengths and weaknesses.

DaveBackus commented 9 years ago

Done. See http://davebackus.gitbooks.io/test/content/py-fun1.html