Mentor Request

[Sayth Renshaw]

Hi

Wanting to ask if there was anyone on the list that would like to be a mentor?

I have no expectation that you would do it for free, so would accept fair offers as well monetary or skill trade, or something regional from Australia that you would otherwise not have access to etc.

I want to be clear on what I am wanting and why.

Wanting to learn.

* Troubleshooting, reading and locating what the errors mean. This is a key area for me, I struggle to understand what I am doing wrong.

* What's idiomatic and good practise, I keep finding code examples I doubt the quality of.

In practical terms the things I want to do effectively.

* Move, clean and obtain data from various sources scraped, streaming json/xml, xml/csv files.

* Data into and out of Excel and SQL stores, best storage and use with pandas and bokeh/matplotlib/plotly other? (D3).

* Present the data as interactive format flask or django or pyramid etc.


About me
I have completed codeacademy Python, Pluralsight python (Austin Bingham), flask projects in Real Python course and bits from various books online courses, conference videos etc.

It's really point one, errors and troubleshooting which causes me the frustration, I feel like I am shooting in the dark, well except for Flask debug=true which seems to give fairly clear errors.

I have several other orielly books and what not, but the examples never seem to relate to what you actually do in the real world.

About me.
Live in New South Wales Australia somewhat regional, closest local python group is 2 and a half hours away in Sydney.
I am a coach in a financial company, also I do trend analysis with excel and sharepoint and write coaching, training and facilitation documentation. 

Note: I am a coach so if you accept to help, I wont be second guessing what tools, approach or actions to do, I know the key to learning is to accept you are learning and go with it.

Thanks 

Sayth

NB: Unless referred directly by someone common and known to this list I will not accept your offer, only members I have seen and post honestly and with a level of group trust will I accept.