Coding

An introduction to programming languages. See how they are just like human languages with their vocabularies and syntax structures.

A brief introduction to JavaScript, a programming language. Go from nouns and verbs to variables and functions.

In this overview of file formats, walk through CSV, a widely used format from scientific to governmental data sets that uses a comma to separate values.

In this overview of txt files you'll learn some characteristics of unformatted text files which is potentially suitable as a data source.

An overview of Microsoft Excel file format, a widely used file format across data sources. Learn some pros and cons of working with this file format.

This overview walks you through xml, a language designed to store and describe information on the web.

With JSON you can parse and generate human-readable data based in its two main structures: Objects and Arrays.

An introduction to creating and validating JSON documents

A brief overview of how to build a JSON file of objects in your life

An interactive introduction to programming in Python, for human beings and whoever else

An introduction to Aptana Studio 3, Python 3 and the command line. Navigating, testing and running Python code

Using the csv library to manipulate our new and existing csv data files

Looping through our data one row at a time, testing it for a particular value and, if it is found, copying that row to our new file

A tutorial on adding a header file to a csv built from a JSON source file. Also, a quick demo of using shell scripts to automate the data downloading process

A tutorial on using the json library to parse json files with Python and write them to a csv

A tutorial on using Python to parse all of the data files in a given folder, without having to explicitly pass the file names

Google slides on avoiding and resolving conflicts in git and GitHub

A high-performance data analysis tool for Python

Natural Language Toolkit is a Python library built to process large amounts of text

A Python package for machine learning and data analysis