NBA Superstar Chris Bosh: Here’s Why You Should Learn to Code

From the Olympic gold medalist.

Teaching Kids Programming: A Collection of Resources

Some interesting material linked here, for a variety of age groups. 

A Practical Intro to Data Science

Some good supplementary materiel here. 

Kaggle Data Mining Competitions

A host of data mining competitions. Maybe a great source of data for you to play with 

When unix pipes get names

A useful trick that's new to me.

Slides: Machine Learning with scikit-learn

A nice guide on python's premier machine learning library from one of its developers. Looking forward to the second half of the class!

A Green Heatmap of Brooklyn

An interesting map showing the treelined streets and farmer's markets in Brooklyn.

Hadoop for Data Science (Slides & Video)

From a recent NYC Data Science Meetup

Interesting TED talk about data and algorithm and using data

How Amy Webb Hacked Online Dating

Simple Citi Bike Analysis

Inspired by a students digging into citi bike, i put together this very simple ipython notebook.

The Target Story

This was a fairly major story about the use (and abuse) of applied data science in retail. Target was able to discover that a young woman was pregnant before her father knew, by looking at her purchase patterns.

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Forbes

Python the Hard Way

Just a reminder to those looking for the free online version of Python the Hard Way.