Developing competency as a data scientist

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A great visual by Swami Chandrasakeran on navigating subways to data science competency.

A data scientist’s journey

Original post here
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matplotlib on mavericks is a mess

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pylab needs matplotlib

On mavericks, first install freetype using brew ‘brew install freetype’

Then install xquartz

then install matplotlib (with the compiler flag from previous posts).

 

The order that worked for me was to fail installing matplotlib, fail installing freetype, then get xquartz installed, reinstall freetype (and try a couple of times) and then it finally succeeded!!

compile errors with xcode versions

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Installing numpy fails due to an xcode compiler flag mismatch error, well documented on stackoverflow. Here’s how I installed scikit

 

mkdir SGML

cd SGML

virtualenv venv

source venv/bin/activate

($venv) sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno–error=unused–command–line–argument–hard–error–in–future pip install —upgrade numpy

numpy is required for scikit

($venv) sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno–error=unused–command–line–argument–hard–error–in–future pip install —upgrade scikit-learn

the actual package is called scikit-learn

($venv) sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno–error=unused–command–line–argument–hard–error–in–future pip install —upgrade pandas

install pandas for good measure

ipython (which requires a bunch of dependencies)

Finally, scipy — which will require fortran compiler for which you need to ‘brew install gfortran’