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Say hello to graphics, visualization, and funky data structures.Photo by Minator Yang on UnsplashYou call yourself a Python programmer, and yet you’re probably unaware of the programming language’s amusing, openly available secret.Do yourself a favor and start there. Open up your favorite terminal, launch the Python interpreter, and enter in the following: import this .Upon hitting enter, you’ll be greeted with the following, eloquent poem.“The Zen of Python, by Tim PetersBeautiful is better than ugly.Explicit is better…

Go beyond the standard curriculum to get the most out of your dataPhoto by Possessed Photography on Unsplash“Don’t get a PhD in History,” I was once told by a PhD Student in History. I wasn’t planning on it, but I must admit I found the tip to be a bit ironic and amusing, in particular because of where it was coming from.I was given this advice by an old TA of mine, a graduate student instructor for an introductory history class I had to take during my first year of college. In his self-deprecating style, he was simply…

As the field flourishes, there is much we can do to benefit its countless students.Photo by NASA on Unsplash“Oh, I didn’t know you could get a PhD in Data Science. I didn’t think those departments existed yet.”“Well, that’s true. Technically my department is Human-Centered Design and Engineering, but I focus on mostly data science and computer science problems, guided by my advisor.”Last week, I attended the National Data Science Education Workshop, hosted by UC Berkeley — an academic leader in the field. While there, I…