Large-Scale Social Phenomena – Data Mining Demo by Artemy Kolchinsky.
From the webpage:
For your mid-term hack-a-thons, you will be expected to quickly acquire, analyze and draw conclusion from some real-world datasets. The goal of this tutorial is to provide you with some tools that will hopefully enable you to spend less time debugging and more time generating and testing interesting ideas.
Here, I chose to focus on Python. It is beautiful language that is quickly developing an ecosystem of powerful and free scientific computing and data mining tools (e.g. the Homogenization of scientific computing, or why Python is steadily eating other languages’ lunch). For this reason, as well as my own familiarity with it, I encourage (though certainly not require) you to use it for your mid-term hack-a-thons. From my own experience, getting comfortable with these tools will pay off in terms of making many future data analysis projects (including perhaps your final projects) easier & more enjoyable.
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Just in time for the weekend! I first saw this in a tweet by Lynn Cherny.
Suggestions of odd data sources for mining?