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Planning.md

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* **Week of 11/21 - 11/25**: (Thanksgiving - Half week) On the Job learning for scikit-learn (pipeline, learning curve) + BIDS matplotlib review + Data School: writing pythonic code + Test Driven Development for Scientist blog post
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* **Week of 11/28 - 12/2**: BIDS Ipython notebook, BIDS functions/modules, BIDS: advanced string, BIDS testing driven development, Jeff Knupp's Unit Testing, Software Carpentry on Testing with Python
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* **Week of 12/5 - 12/9**: BIDS Numpy, BIDS Advanced Interaction, Simeon Franklin's higher order function, Jeff Knupp's "improve your python series": yield/generator, decorator, drastically improve python understanding of execution code, loop like a native (really good)
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* **Week of 12/12 - 12/16**: During the weekend (12/9), add more newer topics (logging, command-line tool, and building packages) for 2017. No active learning for this week, but wrap up by reviewing materials for a blog post
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[Software Development Skills For Data Scientists]: http://treycausey.com/software_dev_skills.html
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[Pandas Plotting Documentation]:http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.18.1/visualization.html

README.md

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To me, the appeal of Python is not necessarily the Data Analysis part, R is already doing a great job on this. Rather, the appeal of using Python for data work is that you have a higher chance to see how data plays a role within the whole integrated technology stack. Knowing Python is likely to make me a better **end-to-end** Data Scientist and better Software Engineer.
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Here is a great [reddit answer] that explains the intersection and disjoint union of the two languages beautifully.
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## Deliberate Practice
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I am a huge believer in learning by doing, and there are a lot of opportunities on the job where I can hone my Python skills through Deliberate Practice:
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[Teach Yourself Programming in 10 years]:http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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[Plateau of Productivity]:http://pbpython.com/plateau-of-productivity.html
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[reddit answer]:https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/2tkkxd/considering_putting_my_efforts_into_python/
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[Language war]:http://www.dataschool.io/python-or-r-for-data-science/
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[advanced R materials]:http://adv-r.had.co.nz/
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[basic web applications in Flask]:https://github.com/robert8138/flask-google-calendar-api-project

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