Data Science Resources

Additional Resources for the Saudi Digital Academy Data Science Immersive Bootcamp

ML Cheatsheets

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Keyword Search for Everything:

When searching the internet looking for data science resources be sure to always include the specific technology you are using or needing help with in your search phrase. For example, if you need to understand a python panda’s series, make sure you include "pandas" in your search. Here are some examples:

1. "yellowbrick" sklearn ValueError
2. How do I create a "numpy" array
3. Where can I upload my "tableau" "shiny" "plotly" dashboard

Tips for using Google Search more effectively

1. Use the tabs
   • The first tip is to use the tabs in Google search. On the top of every search are a number of tabs.
2. Use quotes
   • how do I find "shiny" apps
3. Use a hyphen to exclude words
   • Mustang -cars
4. Use a colon to search specific sites
   • climate visualization:tableau.com
5. Find a page that links to another page
   • link:nytimes.com
6. Use the asterisk wildcard
   • “data * business finance”
7. Find sites that are similar to other sites
   • related:amazon.com
8. Use Google search to do math
   • 8 * 5 + 5 or Planck’s Constant
9. Search for multiple words at once
   • “Best ways to prepare for a job interview” OR “How to prepare for a job interview”
10. (*Protip) Use words that websites would use
    • “I have a flat tire” could be replaced by “repair a flat tire.”
    • “My head hurts” could be replaced by “headache relief.”

Important Links

• Learning Platform
• Matrix DS Files
• Piazza Platform

Competitions

• Driven Data
• [Top Coder] (https://www.topcoder.com/challenges?tracks[DS]=true)
• Kaggle Competitions

Corporation

• IBM Advanced Data Science
• Machine Learning with Tensorflow by Google
• Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Training
• Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science

Financial Resources/Cheatsheets

• Financial Formulas 1

  Finance formulas for Data Science and Financial Statements

• Financial Formualas 2

  Simple Interest, Compound Interest, Future Value, Present Value

• Financial Concepts

  More Financial information for data science students

Financial Videos Refresher

• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow Forecasting
• Business Models and Theories
• SWOT Analysis
• Product Life Cycle
• Ansoff Matrix

Data science tools for different file formats

https://www.kaggle.com/

https://openrefine.org/

https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.5/

http://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter/

http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/app/

https://tabula.technology/

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MOOC

• Fast.ai
• Data Camp Introduction to R
• Data Camp Introduction to Python for Data Science
• Deeplearning.ai

Lesson and Course Planning:

• Algonquin College
• Vanderbilt
• Template from UW

Online Presentation Methods:

• youtube
• udemy
• coursera

Communication Tools:

• Microsoft Teams
• Slack
• Reddit
• Piazza

Presentation Tools:

• Prezi
• LaTeX Beamer
• Powerpoint
• RMarkdown
• Jupyter Slides

Assignments and Projects

• Some Ideas with Solutions
• CMU Assignments with Solutions

Data Sources:

• Google dataset search
• Microsoft open data
• awesome free data sets
• kaggle data sets
• U.S. Government

Data Science Environments:

Free Hosted Environments:

• MatrixDS
• Kaggle
• Google Colab

Local Install – text editors and IDEs

• Sublime
• VS Code
• RStudio
• Jupyter
• Atom
• PyCharm
• Anacdona Spyder

Cloud Tools

• RStudio Server
• Jupyterlab
• Tableau (Dashboards and BI)
• Superset (Dashboards and BI)
• Python Data Science Handbook

Popular Student Textbooks:

Machine Learning

• Deep Learning Textbook
• Elements of Statistical Learning
• An Introduction to Statistical Learning
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

  Books for R

• R for Data Science
• Hands-On Programming with R

  Books for Python

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
• Python Data Science Handbook