[CentralOH] [Dojo] Linkage for quants, AI, and GUI enthusiasts

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Thanks Damien!

I appreciate the time you take to organize and provide the information.
Good stuff!

- Daniel


On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 11:41 AM Damien Calloway <damiencalloway at fastmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This past Thursday, a new person by the name of Corey came, looking for
> help with TensorFlow, and with an interest in AI in general. I stumbled
> across a very useful link to PacktPub :
>
> https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning
> <https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning?login=1>
>
> They have many books on various niche topics in computing, and they have a
> selection of Python and AI books available for download, in addition to
> their deal-of-the-day
>
> This also reminded me of some other links I have been meaning to share for
> a while - every few months, some quant or AI person shows up at the dojo,
> and I found some cool stuff, but keep forgetting to share the linkage. SO,
> without further adieu :
>
> How to Machine Learning, the Self-Starter Way -
> https://elitedatascience.com/learn-machine-learning
>
> From the same site, the Python/Sci-Kit Learn "Wine Snob Edition" of the
> tutorial :
> https://elitedatascience.com/python-machine-learning-tutorial-scikit-learn
>
> UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository -
> http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.php
>
> 10 Minutes to Pandas - from the official docs -
> https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/10min.html
>
> Here is an overview of Furby hacking. For all the right reasons -
> https://gizmodo.com/hackers-found-a-way-to-make-furbies-even-creepier-1756683110
>
> The author of the book "Python for Finance" has a small consultancy, and a
> website with additional info : http://pythonquants.com/
>
> PonyORM - Python oriented database modeling and programming tool -
> https://ponyorm.com/
>
> Murach Books - apparently, *the* source to learn Mainframe Programming.
> They have Java, HTTP/CSS/JS, and Python books, too.
>
> Al Sweigart's page - he is a cool dude, I met him at the PyOhio sprints -
> http://inventwithpython.com/
>
> Green Tea Press - they publish the "Think Python" book through O'Reilly,
> but you can read it online for free -
> https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/
>
> ==================
>
> Also, I have been helping out Brad with a project of his - it involves a
> GUI. We started with Toga but have had to drop down to *gasp* Tkinter
>
> Although this has not been updated since 2005, it oddly remains one of the
> most complete ways to learn the Pythonic way of Tkinter -
> http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/
>
> Almost everything else presumes that you want to learn Tk, or are already
> familiar with Tk.
>
> The only other thing that appears useful, is a self-published book Modern
> Tkinter for Busy Python Developers - Scribd link :
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/166335433/Mark-Roseman-Modern-Tkinter-for-Busy-Python-Developers-2012
>
> Also on Amazon :
> https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Tkinter-Python-Developers-ebook/dp/B0071QDNLO/
>
> Anyway, for all the time I kept saying I was going to send an email -
> well, this is that email.
>
> - Damien
>
>
>
>
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