1. Introduction to
Python for Data Science

2. Who’s Karlijn?
● Data Science Journalist @DataCamp
● Master’s degrees in Information Management, Literature &
Linguistics
● Worked as a junior big data developer with Scala, Hadoop &
Spark
● Love for literature, languages, data science & big data
● … I also love to talk, so please stop me whenever you have
any questions!
@willems_karlijn

3. DataCamp - Learning By Doing
✓ Interactive learning for R, Python
& Data Science
✓ Over 730,000 learners, 70% working
professionals
✓ +1000 business groups

5. Data Science - Useful Links
● Data Science Industry Infographic
● Ba le of the Data Science Venn Diagrams
● …

7. Useful Links
● Khan Academy
● Python Statistics For Data Science Resources
● Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1)
● Scipy Tutorial: Linear Algebra
● Algorithms with Stanford Unversity
● Machine Learning with Stanford University (Andrew Ng)
● Tom Mitchell, “Machine Learning”

9. Useful Links
● Fundamentals of Computer Science (EdX course)
● End-to-end Development Process (Article)
● Intro to Python for Data Science Course (DataCamp)

10. Resources

12. Useful Links
● Introduction to Databases with Stanford University
● Principles of Database Management (Youtube Series)
● Alejandro Vaisman & Esteban Zimányi, “Data Warehouse
Systems”
● SQL with DataCamp (soon!)
● Introduction to Databases in Python

14. Useful Links
● Martin Fowler, “Continuous Integration”

16. Useful Links
● Introduction to Apache Spark (and follow-up courses on
EdX)
● Hadoop: The Definitive Guide
● Martin Odersky, “Programming in Scala”

18. Useful Links
● Kaggle
● DrivenData
● Meetup
● Data.World
● Github Tutorial
You don’t need to start from scratch!

20. Useful Links
● Galvanize
● Quantbros
● General Assembly
● LinkedIn
● Your network!
● …

22. Useful Links
● DataTau
● Reddit - /r/datascience, /r/python, …
● KD Nuggets
● DataCamp Community
● FiveThirtyEight
● Stack Overflow
● ….

23. People To Follow
● DJ Patil, Chief Data Scientist with the White House.
● Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets President, #Analytics, #BigData,
#DataMining, #DataScience expert, KDD & SIGKDD co-founder, was Chief
Scientist at 2 startups, part-time philosopher.
● Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist @OReillyMedia, Program Director of
@strataconf & @OReillyAI. He is the host of the O’Reilly Data Show podcast.
● Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist of Baidu; Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera;
Stanford CS faculty.
● As a top Big Data influencer, Kirk Borne, the Principal Data Scientist at
@BoozAllen, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, ♡ Data Science, is definitely worth
following!

24. Thanks!

25. Questions?