Resources for further learning¶
The website for this workshop is awesome :-)
General coverage of data science tools useful for biologists are covered very well in these two biologist-friendly books:
- Practical Programming for Biologists
- Computing Skills for Biologists – A Toolbox (to be published by Princeton Press - not available yet)
The next section is for those of you who want to learn to program in Python. The first link provides a learn by doing book for coding in Python (a philosophy I recommend), the second link is a more advanced coverage of using Python for data science, and the third provides a comprehensive guide to Python learning resources, and the thrid is a a more
- Learn Python the Hard Way
- Python Data Science Handbook
- Links to Learning Resources at the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python
The best resource for Pandas is probaly the website
If you want to learn R and some statistics, my favorite book for beginners is:
And to learn how to write modern idiomatic R,
If you get stuck, you can ask programming questions at StackOverflow
Finally, links to the various Python packages that we use for data analysis and visualizaiotn in this workshop:
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