sketchy data science road trip

[Psyche]

hey guys i would love to have a coding buddy to build cool things and collect cool data in a quasi-didactic context but am not interested in designing a formalish course

i do a lot of data sciencey things (finding data and telling stories about it) such as this
if you know even just the basics of coding and want to be a part of that while learning and sometimes tutoring on the parts of the ins and outs of it that i'm familiar with and/or am learning myself then pop me a pm we will work something out

we'll tour exotic languages like python, r, javascript and maybe matlab; we'll do statistics we barely understand and make pretty graphs to share them with others; we'll hunt for informational cryptids never before seen in the wild; most importantly, we'll always and only do things no one has ever quite done before

think of it more as a sketchy road trip than a camp i spose

[kraska77]

That sounds so cool, count me as in
I'm curious to know why you're juggling several programs when your goal is just compiling data? Bc from what I heard python's the easiest to use

[gigabyteTroubadour]

hey guys i would love to have a coding buddy to build cool things and collect cool data in a quasi-didactic context but am not interested in designing a formalish course

i do a lot of data sciencey things (finding data and telling stories about it) such as this
if you know even just the basics of coding and want to be a part of that while learning and sometimes tutoring on the parts of the ins and outs of it that i'm familiar with and/or am learning myself then pop me a pm we will work something out

we'll tour exotic languages like python, r, javascript and maybe matlab; we'll do statistics we barely understand and make pretty graphs to share them with others; we'll hunt for informational cryptids never before seen in the wild; most importantly, we'll always and only do things no one has ever quite done before

think of it more as a sketchy road trip than a camp i spose

hey this sounds like exactly what i want to do in the future

i probably am not going to have time for BOTH of these camps so uh

/out for the unity thing (unity uses an in-house language, right? not really into game dev so i'm not sure how useful it'd be for me)

/in for psyche's sketchy road trip

any indication of when these will start? i'm going to be kinda busy for the next few weeks so i don't want to commit to a lot of things until my schedule's more clear. if it's just whenever i'll pm psyche (and kraska) when i'm available

[Psyche]

psyche's sketchy van is getting a little full

[chamber]

Can you please make your own thread for it psyche, and ask a discussion mod to move the relevant posts over? Thank you.

[Equinox]

Can you please make your own thread for it psyche, and ask a discussion mod to move the relevant posts over? Thank you.

The topic has been split.

[Psyche]

simultaneously apologetic and marveling at the convenience

[Psyche]

maybe this thread should be our actual base of operations

[gigabyteTroubadour]

whatever works

[Accountant]

This sounds interesting.

[Psyche]

hi guys
i am working on setting this up
in the meantime, if anyone else wants to be involved, the sketchy van isn't that full

[hitogoroshi]

I'm actually an analytics developer in my day job, although I work in SQL.

Happy to help folks with SQL questions and I guess I could use an excuse to bang out some python.

Looks like infochimps is no longer the clearhousing for cool free data sets it once was; where do the kids go for free data nowadays?

[kraska77]

Hey Psyche I was busy last weekend, I can get to this This weekend tho

[Psyche]

free data