Suggestions for the course

[evanmiltenburg]

This might be a good place to keep suggestions for stuff to include in the course.

Videos

• The visualization landscape
• How Did Python Become A Data Science Powerhouse?

Modules

• Textacy
• ...

[evanmiltenburg]

Here's a nice set of blogs:

• The incredible growth of Python
• Why is Python growing so quickly?
• Python is the fastest growing programming language due to a feature you've never heard of

[evanmiltenburg]

Here's a nice blog about character encodings, and I really like the two packages the author suggests:

• Chardet: automatically guess encoding of a file.
• Ftfy: fixes broken unicode strings.

[evanmiltenburg]

Here are some nice tricks for Pandas. Style your tables to make them easier to read! :)

[evanmiltenburg]

Other course materials:

• https://github.com/dinel/PythonForLinguists
• https://cogs18.github.io/intro/