This repository contains all the material needed by students registered to the Pandas tutorial of SciPy 2015 (http://scipy2015.scipy.org/ehome/115969/289057/?&) on July Mon July 6th 2015.
For a smooth experience, you will need to make sure that you install or update your python distribution and download the tutorial material before the day of the tutorial as the wifi at the ATT center can be flakey.
If you don't already have a working distribution, by far the easiest way to get everything you need for this tutorial is to download Enthought Canopy (https://store.enthought.com/, the free version is enough), or Continuum's Anaconda (http://continuum.io/downloads). That is due to the number of dependencies it has that we will want to play with during the tutorial.
Note for Enthought Canopy users: To reduce download time, the regular installer of Canopy doesn't contain some of the packages we will need. After installation, please login inside the application (on the welcome screen). Then go to the package manager (in the Tools menu) and install any of the packages below that are not already present. Specifically, statsmodels, lxml, beautifulSoup4 (note the 4, not just BeautifulSoup!), html5lib are the only ones that may not be present depending on the version of installer you choose.
The tutorial should be pretty agnostic of whether you are running Python 2.7+ or Python 3.3+, but I will be using Python 2.7 and my material has been tested somewhat more on Python 2. If you don't already have a distribution, I recommend that you intall a Python2 distribution. If you already have a Python3 distribution, you will be fine, and might just have to replace some print statements by functions in occasional places.
If you already have a working distribution, you will need to make sure that you install or update all needed packages. To be able to run the examples, demoes and exercises, you must have the following packages installed: - pandas 0.15+ - numpy 1.8+ - matplotlib 1.4+ - ipython 2.0+ (for running, experimenting and doing exercises) - nose (only to test your distribution)
In certain parts of the class, demoes or exercises, the following packages will be used occasionally: - statsmodels 0.6+ - lxml - beautifulsoup4 (careful to get BeautifulSoup4, not just BeautifulSoup!) - html5lib
To test your installation, please execute the check_env.py script:
$ python check_env.py .... ----------------------------------------------------------------------Ran ** tests in ** s
OK
This github repository is all that is needed in terms of tutorial content. To install it on your machine, you will need a git client and then to clone this repository. Make sure to update that clone before coming to the tutorial on Monday morning to catch any update.
A good git client for Windows can be downloaded at http://www.git-scm.com/downloads. When you install git, you will be asked where to make git available from and what kind of line ending policy you prefer. If you are not sure, we recommend that you allow to run git from the command prompt if possible, as it is more flexible than only running git from the git bash tool that comes with it. Also, for line ending, the option commonly chosen is Checkout Windows-Style, commit unix-style line endings.
If you don't already have git available, a good git client for Mac can be downloaded at http://www.git-scm.com/downloads. It installs git in /usr/local/git/bin/, so to have it available from any terminal, you will want to make sure that location is on your PATH environment variable.
The easiest on Linux is to install git from your distro's package manager (yum for redhat based distros, apt-get for Ubuntu, ...). For example on Ubuntu, it should be enough to type:
$ sudo apt-get install gitOnce git is available, you will need to clone this repository. Its HTTPS URL is https://github.com/jonathanrocher/pandas_tutorial.git. To do that, you should be able to start a command prompt/terminal (or the git bash prompt if you chose to only make git accessible from there) and type:
git clone https://github.com/jonathanrocher/pandas_tutorial.gitThat will create a new folder named SciPy2015_pandas_tutorial/ with all the content you will need: the slides I will go through (slides.pdf), and a folder of exercises.
As you get closer to the day of the tutorial, it is highly recommended to update this repository, as I will be improving it this week. To update it, open a command prompt, move into the SciPy2015_pandas_tutorial/ folder and run:
$ git pullQuestions? Problems? Don't wait, shoot me and the rest of the group an email on the tutorial mailing list: scipy2015-pandas-tutorial@googlegroups.com. You can view all message and sign up at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scipy2015-pandas-tutorial