Bookshelf

I wanted to take a little bit of time to document what I have on my bookshelf as it relates to the data sciences, analytical methods, philosophy amongst others.

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Methods, Techniques and Applications of Data Science

Methods, Techniques and Applications of Data Science

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Common Anaconda-related Commands

Common Anaconda-related Commands

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Pandas Cheat Sheet

This is asummary of pandas commands for which I sometimes forget the syntax and need a reminder.

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Python Cheat Sheet

This is a resource for Python procedures, scripts and one-liners that are useful and might be referenced at some frequency...

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Geospatial Resources

Geospatial Resources

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Using Dask to Process More in Parallel

This is a brief overview of Dask including how and why one might use it

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Tunneling SSH w/ a Jupyter Notebook

We use an SSH tunnel to interact with a Jupyter Notebook in the cloud on our local machine.

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Using Git for Data Science

We explore the best approach for using Git to persist and manage data science projects.

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Installing Anaconda & Jupyter Notebook in Your Data Science Workbench

In this series, we are going to install the very useful Anaconda package as a fundamental part of your data science workbench.

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How do I scrape data from the Internet to conduct analysis?

We use Python here to grab some data from the Internet to conduct some analysis—we've got the code and a small business case here to help drive the point home.

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Adding MySQL to Your Data Science Workbench

We take some time to install this Relational Database Management System (RDMS) in our Data Science Workbench—and insert a few records so that you can begin persisting data in your own systems.

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Creating a New Non-root Linux User

We are going to create a new user within the Ubuntu OS that is not the root user, but does have sudo (i.e. "root") privileges.

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Standing Up a Linux Server

We are going to set up the foundation of our data science workbench in Linux Ubuntu —we will do this by using a virtual machine so we can do it all in the cloud.

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