Data Science Tutorials

Data Collection
How to Stream Text Data from Twitch with Sockets in Python
December 11th, 2018
Learn how to connect to the Twitch Internet Relay Chat (IRC) using Sockets in Python and stream chat data for text analysis.
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Author: Brendan Martin
Founder of LearnDataSci
Python Pandas Tutorial: A Complete Introduction for Beginners
December 4th, 2018
Learn some of the most important pandas features for exploring, cleaning, transforming, visualizing, and learning from data.
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Author: George McIntire
Data Scientist
Author: Brendan Martin
Founder of LearnDataSci
Author: Lauren Washington
Lead Data Scientist & ML Developer
From Good to Great Data Science, Part 1: Correlations and Confidence
November 29th, 2018
With the aid of some hospital data, part one describes how just a little inexperience in statistics could result in two common mistakes
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Author: Brian Joseph
Data Scientist
Ultimate Guide to Web Scraping with Python Part 1: Requests and BeautifulSoup
November 22nd, 2018
Part one of this series focuses on requesting and wrangling HTML using two of the most popular Python libraries for web scraping: requests and BeautifulSoup
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Author: Brendan Martin
Founder of LearnDataSci
Tutorials
Building a Recommendation Engine with Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) in Python
July 11th, 2018
Learn how to build a recommendation engine in Python using LSH: an algorithm that can handle billions of rows
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Author: Ray McLendon
Senior Data Scientist
Tutorials
Reinforcement Q-Learning from Scratch in Python with OpenAI Gym
June 6th, 2018
Teach a Taxi to pick up and drop off passengers at the right locations with Reinforcement Learning
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Author: Satwik Kansal
Software Developer
Author: Brendan Martin
Founder of LearnDataSci
Sentiment Analysis
Predicting Reddit News Sentiment with Naive Bayes and Other Text Classifiers
April 19th, 2018
Learn how to predict the sentiment of news headlines mined from Reddit
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Author: Brendan Martin
Founder of LearnDataSci
Author: Nikos Koufos
CS & Engineering Post Graduate
Introduction to Word Embeddings: Problems and Theory
April 16th, 2018
Making sense of Word Embeddings, how they solve problems and help machines understand language
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Author: Aaron So
C.S. Graduate Student at Columbia University
Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment Analysis on Reddit News Headlines with Python’s Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
April 15th, 2018
Let's use the Reddit API to grab news headlines and perform Sentiment Analysis
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Author: Brendan Martin
Founder of LearnDataSci
Author: Nikos Koufos
CS & Engineering Post Graduate
Python for Finance, Part 3: Moving Average Trading Strategy
April 15th, 2018
Expanding on the previous article, we'll be looking at how to incorporate recent price behaviors into our strategy
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Author: Georgios Efstathopoulos
Quantitative Analyst