Website: Data Science: Tools

R

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

R Project
Home site of the R Project for Statistical Computing.

Scraper Tools

Tabula
Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files.
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https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
ParseHub
"ParseHub gives you full control over how you select, structure and modify elements, so you don’t have to hunt through your browser’s web inspector. You will never have to write a web scraper again; and can use ParseHub to handle interactive maps, infinite scrolling, authentication, dropdowns, form and more with ease"
Scrapy
"An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites."

Unpacking Data (PDF to Google Sheets)

Coding Communities

GitHub
Stack Overflow
Coderwall
Quora
"A place to share knowledge and better understand the world." (Quora)
r/datascience

Python

Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics.

Python Software Foundation
Python Tutorial
Tutorials on Python from w3schools.com
GitHub Python Repositories

Pandas Documentation
Official pandas documentation. Includes user guide and API reference.
Pandas Cookbook
This is a repository for short and sweet examples and links for useful pandas recipes.

Panda Cheat Sheet
A panda cheat sheet to help you easily reference the most common pandas tasks. Created by Dataquest

Text Analysis Tools

bookworm HathiTrust
Search for trends in text in the HathiTrust collection.
Google Ngram Viewer
Search for trends in text in the Google Books collection.
TAPoR
Discover research tools for studying text.
TIME Magazine Corpus
The TIME corpus is based on 100 million words of text in about 275,000 articles from TIME magazine from 1923-2006, and it serves as a great resource to examine changes in American English during this time.
Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

Word cloud made from the Centrenet web page with Voyant Tools.

Jupyter

The Jupyter Notebook is an interactive computing environment that enables users to author notebook documents that include: - Live code - Interactive widgets - Plots - Narrative text - Equations - Images - Video

Jupyter Notebook
Setting up a Jupyter Notebook. With user documentation.
Jupyter Command

D3

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.

Data Driven Documents
"D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation. " (D3)

Algorithms

The Feynman Algorithm
(as proposed by Murray Gell-Mann) :

Write down the problem.
Think real hard.
Write down the solution.

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Data Science: Tools

Tools for Visualizing Data

R