Resources
General Python resources
- Python itself has good documentation and a decent getting started page here.
- Python gives a list of good tutorials here. Many are focused on people with no programming background, but two that seem a bit less introductory are the Python in 10 minutes tutorial, and Google’s Python class.
- There is a Coursera course on Python running from Jan 9, 2016 through Feb 20, 2016.
- I tend to find it easiest to learn languages with some application in mind, so I learned python using the Intro to NLP in Python. Highly recommend as a great way to learn two very useful skills at once!
- Here’s a guide on installing IPython.
- You can also use the Installation Guide for the standard Linux (Ubuntu) VM.
More advanced Python resources
- Boto, a Python library for MTurk’s API. There is decent (although not perfect) documentation here and a good tutorial available here.
- Scikit-learn is an amazingly easy library for doing machine learning in Python. It is also wonderfully verbosely documented with tons of examples.
- Kaggle has some tutorials on sklearn
- NLTK is a great library for doing natural language processing in Python.
- spaCy is another NLP library in Python
- Python client for the CrowdFlower API. There’s a tutorial on the People Pattern blog.
- Seaborn: statistical data visualization in Python
Other Resources
- Tutorial on making videos and uploading them to vimeo
- Ellie’s favorite bash commands for basic data processing/exploration
- Apply for Amazon Web Services credits
- GitHub Student Developer Pack. Free stuff for students.
- Philadelphia Open Data API
- Open Data Philly has cool data about things in Philly.
Artificial Intelligence tutorials and APIs
- Microsoft’s Project Oxford APIs. These APIs include functions for computer vision, face recognition, speech recognition and generation.
- Google Knowledge Graph Search APIs
- Google Maps Geocoding API
- Probability Tutorial from Peter Norvig
- EM Tutorial from Dirk Hovy
Data sets
Books and Courses about Crowdsourcing
- Adam Marcus and Aditya Parameswaran wrote a book about crowdsourcing
- Edith Law and Luis von Ahn wrote a book about human computation
- UMich - Human Computation and Crowdsourcing Systems
- Purdue University - Crowd-Powered Systems
- CMU - Crowd Programming
- UT Austin - Crowdsourcing: Theory, Methods, and Applications
- Matt Lease’s resources on crowdsourcing