Data Science Tutorials
Develop your data science skills with tutorials in our blog. We cover everything from intricate data visualizations in Tableau to version control features in Git.
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Five Tips to Improve your R Code
Five useful tips that you can use to effectively improve your R code, from using seq() to create sequences to ditching which() and much more!
Simon Jackson
December 13, 2017
Python Dictionary Comprehension: Essentials You Need to Know
Learn all about Python dictionary comprehension. Learn how you can use it to create dictionaries, to replace (nested) for loops or lambda functions with map(), filter(), reduce(), and more!
Sejal Jaiswal
December 4, 2024
Python Data Structures Tutorial
Get introduced to Python data structures: learn more about data types and primitive as well as non-primitive data structures, such as strings, lists, stacks, etc.
Sejal Jaiswal
April 6, 2023
AWS EC2 Tutorial For Beginners
Discover why you should use Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and how you can set up a basic data science environment on a Windows instance.
DataCamp Team
December 6, 2017
Convolutional Neural Networks in Python with Keras
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to implement Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in Python with Keras, and how to overcome overfitting with dropout.
Aditya Sharma
December 5, 2017
R Formula Tutorial
Discover the R formula and how you can use it in modeling- and graphical functions of well-known packages such as stats, and ggplot2.
Karlijn Willems
November 23, 2017
Pipes in R Tutorial For Beginners
Learn more about the famous pipe operator %>% and other pipes in R, why and how you should use them and what alternatives you can consider!
Karlijn Willems
December 21, 2022
LDA2vec: Word Embeddings in Topic Models
Learn more about LDA2vec, a model that learns dense word vectors jointly with Dirichlet-distributed latent document-level mixtures of topic vectors.
Lars Hulstaert
October 19, 2017
Python Loops Tutorial
A comprehensive introductory tutorial to Python loops. Learn and practice while and for loops, nested loops, the break and continue keywords, the range function and more!
Satyabrata Pal
October 18, 2017
Web Scraping & NLP in Python
Learn to scrape novels from the web and plot word frequency distributions; You will gain experience with Python packages requests, BeautifulSoup and nltk.
Hugo Bowne-Anderson
October 13, 2017
Hierarchical indices, groupby and pandas
In this tutorial, you’ll learn about multi-indices for pandas DataFrames and how they arise naturally from groupby operations on real-world data sets.
Hugo Bowne-Anderson
March 31, 2023
Groupby, split-apply-combine and pandas
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the pandas groupby operation, which draws from the well-known split-apply-combine strategy, on Netflix movie data.
Hugo Bowne-Anderson
September 26, 2017