This starting blog post was actually a challenge for me. I’ve started my honeymoon in Tokyo and will be out of the country until Jan 31. It turns out canvas mobile app automatically adjusts the time zone for due dates but doesn’t tell the user what the new time zone is! This caused me to mix up the due dates for my first assignments but I was able to catch this error in time. Finally, I found a nice cafe nearby to sit down in and start writing my first blog!
For this course we were tasked with selecting a project to work on. I’m very interested in the data science and machine learning areas. The capstone project I ended up getting assigned to is “Algorithmic Stock Market Trading Strategies for Individual Investors”. This was one of my top choices and an area of interest for me.
For data science one of my favorite Python libraries is Pandas. This library is helpful for exploring statistical analysis and I think it will be useful for this project. I have a strong interest in data analysis and manipulating data to tell a story. The pandas library allows programmers to explore endless possibilities for data analysis with the wide variety of objects, functions, and methods.
I provided a few links on the right for getting started with pandas. The “10 minutes to pandas” is a great starting point. The “IO tools” section is helpful for reading data files like the common csv and xml formats. The “User Guide” sidebar can then be used to modify, evaluate, or analyze the data in almost anyway! Googling “Python Pandas Topic” is also a great way to get started with any data science project.
Leave a Reply