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Intro to python objects
Everything in Python is an object. We’ll explore the basic types using the turtle tutorial as it has stood the test of time. It is also interesting to engage with objects by interactively building something with them. The complex pattern above is a classical example based on a BYTE magazine article from 1982.
Data science 101 for lawyers
‘Text analytics… refers to the discovery of knowledge that can be found in text archives… [it] describes a set of linguistic, statistical and machine learning techniques that model and structure the information content of textual sources for business intelligence, exploratory data analysis, research or investigation.’ (Hu and Liu, 2002, pp 387-8).
Take a tour of the toolkit
Python is extremely well supported by a vibrant open source community. Not only is it the lingua franca of data science but arguably the second best language for everything else. ‘Think of data science not as a new domain of knowledge to learn, but a new set of skills that you can apply within your current area of expertise.’ ~ Jake VanderPlas