Week 9 – Data Science, Conclusion
Lecture (Monday, May 23rd) 👨🏫
Readings 📖
- Christensen, The Billion Dollar Eigenvector
- YouTube: The Story of Python, by Its Creator, Guido van Rossum
- Peréz, The IPython notebook: a historical retrospective
- A Memo to the American People from U.S. Chief Data Scientist Dr. DJ Patil
- Wu, Statistics = Data Science? (download)
- Cleveland, Data Science: An Action Plan for Expanding the Technical Areas of the Field of Statistics
Optional:
- Brin and Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine: the original paper behind Google and PageRank
- Van Rossum, Computer Programming for Everybody
- PSF, Sunsetting Python 2
- YouTube: When Jupyter Becomes Pervasive at a University? Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley)
Homework 9 (due Monday, May 30th at 11:59PM) 📝
Click here to access the homework on DataHub.
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