A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
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Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#2This is an interesting concept. It makes perfect sense to learn both simultaneously. On the other hand, it must be confusing at times. Imagine learning two languages at the same time, from the same book. It's an experiment I haven't tried, but i'm curious about the outcome.
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#3Nobody would write R code the way this book is teaching. For that matter, nobody looking to do linear regression for data science in Python is doing their own matrix math, either.
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#4I picture the author as an early-to-mid 20-year old that is great on the data sci side but weak as a developer. Considers "having to learn" python or R as a hurdle to their accessing their innate mathematical prowess.
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#5This is an interesting concept. It makes perfect sense to learn both simultaneously. On the other hand, it must be confusing at times. Imagine learning two languages at the same time, from the same book. It's an experiment I haven't tried, but i'm curious about the outcome.
Also interesting to learn two languages, in parallel, where neither is particularly good at parallelism :)
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#6This is an interesting concept. It makes perfect sense to learn both simultaneously. On the other hand, it must be confusing at times. Imagine learning two languages at the same time, from the same book. It's an experiment I haven't tried, but i'm curious about the outcome.
I suspect a lot of readers will have some proficiency in either R or Python and want to learn the other.
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#7I learnt Matlab/R/Python/Javascript altogether. It was a mess for me to grok all the similar-but-different syntax, but it make me realized more about the real essence of what is really important for the domain rather than language details.
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#8I picture the author as an early-to-mid 20-year old that is great on the data sci side but weak as a developer. Considers "having to learn" python or R as a hurdle to their accessing their innate mathematical prowess.
Literally the second sentence in the book he states he was an undergrad in 2006.
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#9This is an interesting concept. It makes perfect sense to learn both simultaneously. On the other hand, it must be confusing at times. Imagine learning two languages at the same time, from the same book. It's an experiment I haven't tried, but i'm curious about the outcome.
Also interesting to learn two languages, in parallel, where neither is particularly good at parallelism :)
Are you trolling right now? R's idioms for parallelism are pretty darn straightforward and easy to use. Effective too.
Re: A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
#10This is an interesting concept. It makes perfect sense to learn both simultaneously. On the other hand, it must be confusing at times. Imagine learning two languages at the same time, from the same book. It's an experiment I haven't tried, but i'm curious about the outcome.
I taught myself python by converting ruby programs using ruby syntax, coding styles, libraries etc. I just used the pick-axe book as a reference and converted code examples from any interesting and/or useful/relevant python source I could get my hands on at the time. (circa 2008?) So this actually makes sense to me learning 2 languages at once as long as you understand what you are doing with them to begin with. I would not recommend it to a beginner though. Interesting though. See it through and complete it. I'll check back.