8 Resources

8.1 Setting up your computer

Data Scientists typically use a common set of tools. We have listed a few below to get you started.

  • R, RStudio and the following R packages: tidyverse, rmarkdown, shiny, mlr
  • Python 3 and the following Python packages: pandas, seaborn, bokeh, numpy, scipy, statsmodels, scikit-learn, virtualenv, jedi
  • LaTeX
  • Slack

A repository called brew-ds has been prepared and hosted on GitHub, which will set up a MacOS machine with the above tools; instructions can be found in the README.md.

8.2 Online Learning Materials

8.2.0.1 Python

8.2.0.2 R

8.2.0.4 Documentation

8.2.0.5 Version Control