Vik Paruchuri
Vik Paruchuri
Python API Tutorial: Getting Started with APIs
In this data science tutorial, learn about APIs by analyzing data from the international space station in this step-by-step Python API tutorial.
Pandas Tutorial: Analyzing Video Game Data with Python and Pandas
Pandas is a Python library that can make data analysis much simpler. In this tutorial, we’ll use Python and pandas to analyze video game data.
5 Steps to Learning Python the Right Way
Learn Python the right way, avoid the “cliff of boring,” and give yourself the best chance to actually learn to code by following these steps.
Dataquest’s Philosophy: Building the Perfect Data Science Learning Tool
Learn how Dataquest’s philosophy sets our platform apart from other data science learning tools, and what we’ve learned from years of teaching data science.
Learn Data Science With Dataquest
Trying to learn data science can be overwhelming, but this is a valuable skill to have in today’s business world. Here’s how you can approach it.
19 Places to Find Free Data Sets for Data Science Projects
A collection of the best places to find free data sets for data visualization, data cleaning, machine learning, and data processing projects.
Learning Data Science: The Dataquest Teaching Philosophy
Understand Dataquest’s teaching principles and make an informed choice about using the platform on your journey learning data science.
Diversity and Online Education
Online education can be a democratizing force that brings better education to everyone, but only if we approach it in the right way.
Python vs R: Head to Head Data Analysis
Python vs. R — which is better for data science? We compare the two languages side by side and see how Python and R perform on the same analysis steps.
Fixing Education: Motivation and Freedom
Public education, at least in the US, only ever exposes you to one way of learning—top-down hierarchy, and assignments. While some people thrive in this environment, I am not one of them. After college, I was thrown into the world with a 2.1 GPA, no real skills, and no idea of what to do next. […]
The Tips and Tricks I used to succeed on Kaggle
I learned machine learning through competing in Kaggle competitions. I entered my first competitions in 2011, with almost no data science knowledge. I soon ended up in fifth place out of a hundred or so in a stock trading competition. Over the next year, I won several competitions on automated essay scoring and bond price […]
How to become a data scientist
Data science is one of the most buzzed about fields right now, and data scientists are in extreme demand. And with good reason — data scientists are doing everything from creating self-driving cars to automatically captioning images. Given all the interesting applications, it makes sense that data science is a very sought-after career. Data science […]
Building An Analytics Data Pipeline In Python
If you’ve ever wanted to learn python online with streaming data, or data that changes quickly, you may be familiar with the concept of a data pipeline. Data pipelines allow you transform data from one representation to another through a series of steps. Data pipelines are a key part of data engineering, which we teach […]
1 tip for effective data visualization in Python
Yes, you read correctly — this post will only give you 1 tip. I know most posts like this have 5 or more tips. I once saw a post with 15 tips, but I may have been daydreaming at the time. You’re probably wondering what makes this 1 tip so special. “Vik”, you may ask, […]
What is a Data Engineer?
Data engineers build pipelines that prepare and transform data for data scientists. We explore what a data engineer does, and why the role is necessary.
How to present your data science portfolio on GitHub
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts on how to build a Data Science Portfolio. In the previous posts in our portfolio series, we talked about how to build a storytelling project, how to create a data science blog, how to create a machine learning project, and how to construct […]
How to get a data science job
You’ve done it. You just spent months learning how to analyze data and make predictions. You’re now able to go from raw data to well structured insights in a matter of hours. After all that effort, you feel like it’s time to take the next step, and get your first data science job. Unfortunately for […]
Pandas Tutorial: Data analysis with Python: Part 2
We covered a lot of ground in Part 1 of our pandas tutorial. We went from the basics of pandas DataFrames to indexing and computations. If you’re still not confident with Pandas, you might want to check out the Dataquest pandas Course. In this tutorial, we’ll dive into one of the most powerful aspects of […]
Tutorial: Python Web Scraping Using BeautifulSoup
Web scraping allows us to extract information from web pages. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to perform web scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup.
I Barely Graduated College, And That’s Okay
The story of how I taught myself Data Science and built Dataquest after a forgettable college experience that left me thinking I was a poor student.