Week 8

One-time setup

Please do the following:

• Add your name pronunciation and pronouns.

• Set your profile photo in CourseWorks.

• Add your profile photo in Ed.

  1. Open Ed.

  2. Click the icon in the top right.

  3. Click Settings.

  4. Add your photo.

Reading

1. The Joys (and Woes) of the Craft of Software Engineering

   • Note not everything in there is applicable to data analysis

2. Filtering/indexing DataFrames

   • Filter specific rows from a DataFrame

   • Boolean indexing

3. Learn about functions

   • Video

   • Blog post

4. Guide to commenting your code

5. Quartz Guide to Bad Data

6. Learn about data dictionaries

Optional

• Glance through pandas’ comparison with other tools for any you are familiar with

• Selecting Subsets of Data in Pandas: Part 1 and Part 2

• More about 311:

  • Wikipedia

  • NYC

    • About page

    • 2023 Report

  • Open311

If you’re feeling shaky on any Python fundamentals, check out the Python resources.