Starting with scikit-learn

If you are an aspiring Data analyst / Data scientist, this is the correct place to be.

Here is an awesome step-by-step documentation scikit-learn community has created.
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/basic/tutorial.html

I will be providing some videos in the blog post later on how to get started.

Some of the existing videos which you can follow:
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/presentations.html#videos

Here are some FAQs:
Using my data with scikit-learn?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21492726/using-prepared-data-for-sci-kit-classification

Importing a CSV data to scikit-learn
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11023411/how-to-import-csv-data-file-into-scikit-learn/11035992#11035992

How to become data analyst / data scientist

If you are starting from scratch then this post is for you and interested in Python:

Step 1: Setting up your machine
Download anaconda and use spyder or Ipython for trying out small things.
Python is installed into this package itself.

Step 2: Basic of Python as a programming lang
 learn: Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, List comprehensions, Dictionary comprehensions

Step 3:
Learn these libraries in Python – Pandas, NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib

Step 4:
Start Machine learning with Scikit-learn

Step 5:
The thing which will differentiate you from other data scientist is practice.


Some nice blogs to follow:
 1. http://www.datasciencecentral.com/
 2. http://www.kdnuggets.com/
 3. http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/ [Indian community which came up very fast]

To start practising models, participate in competitions from:
1. https://www.kaggle.com/
2. http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/

Installing Jenkins

Jenkins has two ways to install
1. Installing a war file
2. Installing jenkins as a service

In my case, it is redhat distribution and there are simple steps to install Jenkins as a service

• sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo
• sudo rpm --import https://jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key
• sudo yum install jenkins
• sudo service jenkins start

Thats it!!!

http://<IP address>:8080 is the place where you will get the default installation screen

More details : https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins