Since you're asking, here's a plug for my site, www.statsfair.com . You might pick up some ideas from there.Originally Posted by mikmak
I would be interested in any literature that will help me get better and specifically with data scraping and model building. I'm guessing there are many others that would as well.
Wrote my first python script thanks to this thread
First, find out if you have >= perl 5.0 installedForgive my ignorance...... but how would I actually utilize this script? Do I upload to a server cgibin and then go to the page? I mean how do I get this script to run?
Install perl modules (www.cpan.org) LWP::Simple, HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::FormatText
Copy and Paste script in text editor. Save and make file executable (chmod +x file.pl)
On command line ~$ perl file.pl
Forgive me for the late response. Don't come here that often.
My original post, it seems, was a digression to the OP's intention for this thread. I apologize.
I would have to yield to the OP's programming language (python) in this thread since he can educate better than I can. Python is a great programming language. It's MIT's language of choice.
Great Post!
Really informative and great post. Got a tiny bit of programming experience, but have never really used it for something useful
before learning programming I would like to learn more about predictive analytics and modeling. is there any good books out there I can read up on or maybe a youtube series etc
edx.com has a sabermetrics course coming up
mathletics is a good book to start with
I've a basic knowledge of programming in java and excel. I've read the first 4 chapters of the Python book, nothing new, just a new language. But I find the transition from those 4 chapters to scraping webpages extremely difficult. I've never worked with websites before.
Are there any examples, books, exercises out there that can help me with this transition?
Thanks!
That Sabermetrics course starts today for anyone still interested.edx.com has a sabermetrics course coming up
mathletics is a good book to start with
Hi,
maybe on-line software (betviz) can help you.
great stuff here. Hopefully, this continues.
Coursera has a machine learning course which is offered by Stanford. It's a good place to start.before learning programming I would like to learn more about predictive analytics and modeling. is there any good books out there I can read up on or maybe a youtube series etc
people like this ,who share knowledge are Blessed
Great info... I need to read & reread it a few times for sure.
