Dataquest Guided Projects

This repository is a collection of my projects from Dataquest.io.

The projects below will serve as reference notes for myself and anyone else who is interested. These projects contain lots of comments showing my thought process and what I personally learned from each project.

Project #1: Exploring US births

_{Concepts explored: lists, dictionaries, functions, for loops}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .read(), open(), .split(), .append(), int()}

Project #2: Exploring Gun Deaths in the US

_{Concepts explored: list comprehension, datetime module, csv module}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: csv.reader(), .items(), list(), datetime.datetime()}

Project #3: Analyzing Thanksgiving Dinner

_{Concepts explored: pandas, functions, boolean filtering}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .read_csv(), .pivot_table(), .replace(), .describe(), .apply(), .isnull(), .columns, .shape, .head()}

Project #4: Visualizing Earnings Based On College Majors

_{Concepts explored: pandas, matplotlib, histograms, bar charts, scatterplots, scatter matrices}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .plot(), scatter_matrix(), hist(), iloc[], .head(), .tail(), .describe()}

Project #5: Visualizing The Gender Gap In College Degrees

_{Concepts explored: pandas, matplotlib, histograms, line plots, chart graphics}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .savefig(), .text(), .axhline(), .set_yticks(), .tick_params(), .set_title(), .set_ylim(), .set_xlim(), .spines(), .tick_params()}

Project #6: Analyzing NYC High School Data

_{Concepts explored: pandas, matplotlib.pyplot, correlations, regex, basemap, data analysis, string manipulation}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .scatter(), info(), .tolist(), .groupby(), .agg(), .concat(), .apply(), .strip, .merge(), .fillna(), .corr()}

Project #7: Star Wars Survey

_{Concepts explored: pandas, matplotlib.pyplot, data cleaning, string manipulation, bar plots}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .read_csv(), .columns, notnull, map(), .dtypes, .rename, astype(), .mean(), .sum(), .xlabel(), .ylabel()}

Project #8: Working with Data Downloads

_{Concepts explored: pandas, manipulating files with command line}

Project #9: Transforming Data with Python

_{Concepts explored: pandas, manipulating files with command line, working with multiple python scripts, dateutil.parser}

Project #10: Analyzing CIA Factbook

_{Python/SQL concepts explored: python+sqlite3, pandas, SQL queries, SQL subqueries, matplotlib.plyplot, seaborn, histograms}

_{Functions, methods, and properties used: .cursor(), .read_sql_query(), .set_xlabel(), .set_xlim(), .add_subplot(), .figure()}

_{SQL statements used: SELECT, WHERE, FROM, MIN(), MAX(), ORDER BY, AND}

Project #11: Preparing data for SQLite

_{Python/SQL concepts explored: python+sqlite3, pandas, data cleaning, columns manipulation}

_{Functions, methods, and properties used: .str.rstrip(), .str.split(), .connect(), .cursor(), .drop(), .str[], .map(), .value_counts()}

_{SQL statements used: SELECT, FROM, PRAGMA}

Project #12: Creating Relations in SQLite

_{Python/SQL concepts explored: python+sqlite3, pandas, multiple tables, foreign keys, subqueries, populating new tables}

_{Functions, methods, and properties used: .cursor(), .connect(), .execute(), .fetchall(), .executemany()}

_{SQL statements used: PRAGMA, LIMIT, FROM, SELECT, INNER JOIN, DROP, ALTER, VALUES}

Project #13: Analyzing Movie Reviews

_{Concepts explored: pandas, descriptive statistics, numpy, matplotlib, scipy, correlations}

^{Functions and methods used: .sort_values(), sci.linregress(), .hist(), .absolute(), .mean(), .median(), .absolute()}

Project #14: Winning Jeopardy

_{Concepts explored: pandas, matplotlib, data cleaning, string manipulation, chi squared test, regex, try/except}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .columns, .lower(), .sub(), .apply(), sum(), .array(), .split(), .shape, .mean(), .iterrows(), .remove(), .add(), .append()}

Project #15: Predicting Car Prices

_{Concepts explored: Concepts explored: pandas, matplotlib, data cleaning, features engineering, k-nearest neighbors, hyperparameter tuning, RMSE}

^{Functions and methods used: .read_csv(), .replace(), .drop(), .astype(), isnull().sum(), .min(), .max(), .mean(), .permutation(), .reindex(), .iloc[], .fit(), .predict(), mean_squared_error(), .Series(), .sort_values(), .plot(), .legend()}

Project #16: Predicting House Sale Prices

_{Concepts explored: pandas, data cleaning, features engineering, linear regression, hyperparameter tuning, RMSE, KFold validation}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .dtypes, .value_counts(), .drop, .isnull(), sum(), .fillna(), .sort_values(), . corr(), .index, .append(), .get_dummies(), .astype(), predict(), .fit(), KFold(), mean_squared_error()}

Project #17: Predicting the Stock Market

_{Concepts explored: linear regression, mean squared error, categorical features, datetime}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: .read_csv(), .to_datetime(), .sort_values(), .rolling(), .apply(), .concat(), .get_dummies(), .shift(), datetime(), .fit(), .predict(), mean_squared_error()}

Project #18: Predicting Bike Rentals

_{Concepts explored: pandas, matplotlib, features engineering, linear regression, decision trees, random forests, MSE}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used:.hist(), .apply(), .corr(), .columns, .drop(), .sample(), .index, .floor(),.fit() .predict(), .mean_squared_error(), .append()}

Project #19: Investigating Airplane Accidents

_{Concepts explored: Big O notation, strings, dictionaries, data parsing, try/except}

^{Functions, methods, and properties used: range(), .append(), .split(), .values(), Counter()}

Project #20: Working with Spark in Jupyter Notebook

_{Concepts explored: Spark}

^{PySpark methods used: .map(), .flatMap(), .filter(), .count(), .collect(), .take()}

Project #21: Working with Spark Dataframes and Spark SQL in Jupyter

_{Concepts explored: Spark SQL, Spark Dataframes, combining data from multiple files}

^{Methods and functions used: .SQLContext(), .head(), .toPandas(), .show(), .select(), .hist(), .registerTempTable()}