From christianzlong at gmail.com Mon Nov 7 21:53:25 2016 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:53:25 -0600 Subject: [FoxPUG] November meeting notes Message-ID: Tonight we worked on understanding the Pandas data analysis tool. I did a brief presentation on the basic data structures in Pandas: Series, DataFrame, and Panel. The [Pandas documentation](pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/) has a good [introduction](pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/10min.html) to the data structures and what you can do with them. Part of the time we went through an interactive session in an [iPython notebook](https://ipython.org/notebook.html) - now known as a Jupyter notebook. You can see a static view of the notebook with all the output [here](https://github.com/christianmlong/pandas_test/blob/master/pandas.ipynb). We also talked about all of the question and answer sites that are part of the Stack Exchange network. [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/) is the oldest and most popular of the Stack Exchange sites. Stack Overflow is a Q&A site for programmers, and it's huge - [#44](http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com) in Alexa's ranking of the top 100 global websites. It is an indispensable resource for any programmer. If you program, and you don't already have an account, [set one up right away](http://stackoverflow.com/users/login). I'm at [christianmlong](http://stackoverflow.com/users/456550/christian-long). There are [over a hundred](http://stackexchange.com/sites) Q&A sites in the Stack Exchange network. [Server administration](http://serverfault.com/), [home improvement](http://diy.stackexchange.com/), [cooking](http://cooking.stackexchange.com/), [Islam](http://cooking.stackexchange.com/), [Bitcoin](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/), [LEGO](http://bricks.stackexchange.com/), etc. We spent some time looking at the [GIS Stack Exchange site](http://gis.stackexchange.com/), for questions and answers about Geographical Information Systems. In future sessions, we will be looking at the examples in [Python Scripting for ArcGIS](https://www.amazon.com/Python-Scripting-ArcGIS-Paul-Zandbergen-ebook/dp/B00THVKAP8). Our last meeting for 2016 is on Monday, December 5. See you there! Christian