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Introduction to Python for data science. The presentation can be viewed here. And the notebook is available here.

Python tutorials

• A very straightforward overview of Python 3.
• The very thorough official tutorial.
• Learn Python the Hard Way: a book to get good at Python.

Useful resources

• The official Python documentation.
• The Python Package Index.
• Anaconda: A free Python distribution for data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing.
• Practical Business Python: A blog with useful articles about Python applied to business.
• A .pdf with equivalences between Matlab - Python - R.
• Pycoders: A weekly newsletter with interesting information and useful resources.

Interesting examples

• Notebook Gallery: Huge collection with many interesting notebooks.
• nbviewer: A notebook viewer (has a showcase with nice examples too).
• An example that finds the dominant color using k-means.
• A good example of how to optimize code with NumPy and Numba.
• A short example of financial analytics.
• A tutorial to create a simple web API with Flask.