@Amit Thank you for your suggestions! I'll look into the data there and see if there's something relevant that I can use to do a project. Yes I believe it would involve some data analysis (and I may need to learn R as well or use RPy). Do you think one project is sufficient to demonstrate my skills if it's in-depth? Or does it take several projects?
@Japhy Thanks for your response. I don't really mean that I can't think of any problems in my fields of study, but rather that I'm inexperienced in selecting a specific problem that's appropriate (not too simple or complex) to work with based on my current Python experience. I agree that python skills are demonstrated through writing though. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Amit Saha <amitsaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jing Ai, > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jing Ai <jai...@g.rwu.edu> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > This is Jing and I am a recent college graduate with Biology and Public > > Health background. I'm currently learning python on my own when i have > time > > off from my PH internship. There's a job posting that looks really idea > for > > me in the near future (a PH Research position) that requires "Python > > experience" and I wonder if any of you have any suggestions how I can > > demonstrate my python skills if I'm learning it on my own as opposed to > > taking courses? > > > > Some people had previously suggested GitHub, but it seems to only show my > > abilities to read python code and detect bugs, but not abilities to write > > python code. Some others suggested doing a project of my own, but I > don't > > currently have any data or problem to solve in my field. > > I am not from your background. In your field of work do you need to do > lot of data analysis (read statistical analysis)?. Do you think you > could find something like that and something of your interest? You > could then use Python (the language and related tools) to perform data > analysis, presenting data graphically, etc to work the data and infer > some relevant conclusions. For example, http://www.quandl.com/ has > data sets related to various fields of study. > > Does that sound like something you may find interesting and is relevant? > > Best, > Amit. > -- > http://echorand.me >
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