Lesson 44: Bootcamp recap

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Hello, world

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print('hello, world')
hello, world

Command line mastery

"Ugh. I'm just going to do it on the command line." --Overheard at bootcamp

Scripting

You now have a very efficient assistant.

Version control

You can now sleep easy

...and collaborate

...and do better, reproducible, sharable science

...and the bootcamp has code on the internet for all!

Data types

  • ints
  • floats
  • strings
  • bools
  • lists
  • tuples
  • dictionaries
  • sets
  • functions, file handles, NumPy arrays, DataFrames, ...

NumPy arrays

Slicing and dicing

Random number generation (probability is the mathematical language of biology)

Regressions

Anything you want to do with groups of numbers

Matplotlib/Seaborn

Your plotting is

automatic

reproducible

beautiful.

Pandas

Your data are organized.

And accessible.

As a hacker

Statistics are tractable and understandable.

You can simulate complex processes.

Your data

have a new master. Whether images, time series, counts, you name it.

This is the beginning!

I look forward to seeing what you will do!