Over the past week or so, I have explored the budding branch of Data Science and I am insanely happy to see that we are finally becoming really creative with such dry a subject, to the extent that I envision Data Artists, rather than Data Scientists. You know, numbers don't really have an intrinsic sense of their own, they only exist at an abstract level after all but images and music; we feel these in our bones and it's an immense difference between studying symmetry and experiencing symmetry. I recommend that you explore the following resources which I have listed below. To really improve, we need to see the world in a whole different way and it's The Great Metamorphosis that we aim for, this is what being a Sagematician means!!
An Awesome TED Talk on Visualisation
D3.js Gallery
Plot.ly Gallery
showmeshiny - Powered by R
Useful bunch of links for budding Data Artists
Of course, learning these skills requires a certain amount of time and effort, not to mention patience but what worthwhile Art doesn't. You don't become a Legend in a day, perhaps the recognition comes in a day, ah there is a beautiful quote which captures this entirely, " It takes 10 years of hard work to become an overnight success" !! So, we might as well learn to enjoy the process.
Another thing being that I have explored a lot in the past weeks or so and I think it's best to start of with a particular priority list which doesn't really mean a neglect to the things which are to be mastered later. Everything is important but I care only about things which are relevant to my work.
Visualisation is of course a must-do if we are to make any reasonable sense in the mysteries of Statistics and JavaScript/HTML5/CSS are quite important too if we are to become fluent in presenting our work to people; which makes a lot of sense as it is not a lonely pursuit. So, is LATEX, which essentially is the Art of Digital Texts; in fact it is to PDF's what HTML is to the internet, only perhaps more important. All the equations and the various arrangement can only be accomplished if we are to get comfortable with LATEX as well. I am gonna upload a LATEX document of an article on Einstein's equation which I found to be inspiring enough so as to follow it through.
I know that it's all quite a lot and we haven't really started to even go through various Sage versions of important proofs yet!! But, I know for a fact that this is a great set of skills to acquire. I am planting a Garden of Amazing seeds, oh better still, let's call it the Garden of Eden and every seed would be a great reward in future.
At the moment, I am learning how to use the Emacs Org-mode so as to better structure the program and to keep track of various things like, how many variable I declare and what are the main things which I need to keep in mind while forming a solution or coming up with an outline. The best part about the Org-mode is that it is all extensible, just like the rest of Emacs so, when I am more acquainted with my Magnificent ToolKit, I can tinker around quite a bit and customise my environment the way it works best for me.
Btw, I found this insanely channel for Python skills, Study this one 24x7 - Fun and Interesting
Work hard, Be awesome=)
An Awesome TED Talk on Visualisation
D3.js Gallery
Plot.ly Gallery
showmeshiny - Powered by R
Useful bunch of links for budding Data Artists
Of course, learning these skills requires a certain amount of time and effort, not to mention patience but what worthwhile Art doesn't. You don't become a Legend in a day, perhaps the recognition comes in a day, ah there is a beautiful quote which captures this entirely, " It takes 10 years of hard work to become an overnight success" !! So, we might as well learn to enjoy the process.
Another thing being that I have explored a lot in the past weeks or so and I think it's best to start of with a particular priority list which doesn't really mean a neglect to the things which are to be mastered later. Everything is important but I care only about things which are relevant to my work.
Visualisation is of course a must-do if we are to make any reasonable sense in the mysteries of Statistics and JavaScript/HTML5/CSS are quite important too if we are to become fluent in presenting our work to people; which makes a lot of sense as it is not a lonely pursuit. So, is LATEX, which essentially is the Art of Digital Texts; in fact it is to PDF's what HTML is to the internet, only perhaps more important. All the equations and the various arrangement can only be accomplished if we are to get comfortable with LATEX as well. I am gonna upload a LATEX document of an article on Einstein's equation which I found to be inspiring enough so as to follow it through.
I know that it's all quite a lot and we haven't really started to even go through various Sage versions of important proofs yet!! But, I know for a fact that this is a great set of skills to acquire. I am planting a Garden of Amazing seeds, oh better still, let's call it the Garden of Eden and every seed would be a great reward in future.
At the moment, I am learning how to use the Emacs Org-mode so as to better structure the program and to keep track of various things like, how many variable I declare and what are the main things which I need to keep in mind while forming a solution or coming up with an outline. The best part about the Org-mode is that it is all extensible, just like the rest of Emacs so, when I am more acquainted with my Magnificent ToolKit, I can tinker around quite a bit and customise my environment the way it works best for me.
Btw, I found this insanely channel for Python skills, Study this one 24x7 - Fun and Interesting
Work hard, Be awesome=)
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