Using Python for Research
EdX HarvardX Over the past two weeks I've started an online course covering python basics, python research libraries, and some specific case studies. To start, edx.org is a fantastic site with a great cause: spreading knowledge. You can take free courses from leading institutions like Harvard , but enough of the unpaid promotion. My interest in this course stemmed from a few places. Namely, the desire to learn python, use machine learning libraries, and general lust for information. EdX has a ton of learning python and python for _blank_ courses available from universities & corporations. However, as a totally bias human being, I wanted to take the Harvard course being I have a sibling there (or maybe I don't, you'll never know internet reader). Regardless, I wanted to learn the programming language python in a directly applicable way and this course offered that. So I signed up. Python appealed to me after watching videos on machine learning and seeing how easy pyt