DataCamp

DataCamp is an online learning platfrom with interactive courses, practices, and projects. Not only R but Python is appied in different projects, and those mini-projects could help you hone your coding skill and the machine learning knowledge! You can also find some useful cheatsheet here in case of forgetting some functions or arguments.

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R project

Project Name	Description	Note
A Text Analysis of Trump's Tweets	Apply text mining to Donald Trump's tweets to confirm if he writes the (angrier) Android half
A Visual History of Nobel Prize Winners	Explore a dataset from Kaggle containing a century's worth of Nobel Laureates. Who won? Who got snubbed?
Are You Ready for the Zombie Apocalypse?	Use your logistic regression skills to protect people from becoming zombies!
Bad passwords and the NIST guidelines	Check what passwords fail to conform to the National Institute of Standards and Technology password guidelines.
Classify Suspected Infection in Patients	Classify patients with suspected infections using data.table and electronic health records.	data.table
Clustering Bustabit Gambling Behavior	Use cluster analysis to glean insights into cryptocurrency gambling behavior.
Clustering Heart Disease Patient Data	Experiment with clustering algorithms to help doctors inform treatment for heart disease patients.
Data Science for Social Good/ Crime Study	Use data science to catch criminals, plus find new ways to volunteer personal time for social good.	ggmap
Degrees That Pay You Back	Explore the salary potential of college majors with a k-means cluster analysis.	KMeans
Dr. Semmelweis and the Discovery of Handwashing	Reanalyse the data behind one of the most important discoveries of modern medicine: handwashing.
Draw flowers using mathematics	Use R to make art and create imaginary flowers inspired by nature.
Drunken Datetimes in Ames, Iowa	Apply your skills from "Working with Dates and Times in R" to breathalyzer data from Ames, Iowa.
Explore 538's Halloween Candy Rankings	Get ready for Halloween by digging into a FiveThirtyEight dataset with all your favorite candy!
Exploring the Kaggle Data Science Survey	Discover the top tools Kaggle participants use for data science and machine learning.
Functions for Food Price Forecasts	Write functions to forecast time series of food prices in Rwanda.
Gender Bias in Graduate Admissions	Analyze admissions data from UC Berkeley and find out if the university was biased against women.	Simpson's paradox
Going Down to South Park: A Text Analysis	Analyze the dialog and IMDB ratings of 287 South Park episodes. Warning: contains explicit language.
Importing and Cleaning Data	Apply your importing and data cleaning skills to real-world soccer data.
Health Survey Data Analysis of BMI	Analyze health survey data to determine how BMI is associated with physical activity and smoking.
Kidney Stones and Simpson's Paradox	Use logistic regression to determine which treatment procedure is more effective for kidney stone removal.
Level Difficulty in Candy Crush Saga	Analyze data from the hit mobile game, Candy Crush Saga.
Modeling the Volatility of US Bond Yields	Discover how the US bond yields behave using descriptive statistics and advanced modeling.
Partnering to Protect You from Peril	Examine the network of connections among local health departments in the United States.	Network analysis
Planning Public Policy in Argentina	Apply unsupervised learning techniques to help plan an education program in Argentina.
Predict Taxi Fares with Random Forests	Use regression trees and random forests to find places where New York taxi drivers earn the most.
Reducing Traffic Mortality in the USA	How can we find a good strategy for reducing traffic-related deaths?
Rise and Fall of Programming Languages	Analyze the relative popularity of programming languages over time based on Stack Overflow data.
Scout Your Athletics Fantasy Team	Analyze athletics data to find new ways to scout and assess jumpers and throwers.
Text Mining America's Toughest Game Show	Use text mining to analyze Jeopardy! data.
The Impact of Climate Change on Birds	Predict the impact of climate change on bird distributions using spatial data and machine learning.
Trends in Maryland Crime Rates	Apply hierarchical and mixed-effect models to analyze Maryland crime rates.	GLMM
TV, Halftime Shows, and the Big Game	Load, clean, and explore Super Bowl data in the age of soaring ad costs and flashy halftime shows.
Visualizing Inequalities in Life Expectancy	Compare life expectancy across countries and genders with ggplot2.
What Makes a Pokémon Legendary?	Use tree-based machine learning methods to identify the characteristics of legendary Pokémon.
What Your Heart Rate Is Telling You	Examine the relationship between heart rate and heart disease using multiple logistic regression.
Where Are the Fishes?
Where Would You Open a Chipotle?	Create and explore interactive maps using Leaflet to determine where to open the next Chipotle.
Who Is Drunk and When in Ames, Iowa?	Flex your tidyverse muscles on breath alcohol test data from Ames, Iowa, USA.
Wrangling and Visualizing Musical Data	Wrangle and visualize musical data to find common chords and compare the styles of different artists.

Python project

Project Name	Description	Note
A Network Analysis of Game of Thrones	Analyze the network of characters in Game of Thrones and how it changes over the course of the books.
A New Era of Data Analysis in Baseball	Use MLB's Statcast data to compare New York Yankees sluggers Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton.
A Visual History of Nobel Prize Winners	Explore a dataset from Kaggle containing a century's worth of Nobel Laureates. Who won? Who got snubbed?
Analyze Your Runkeeper Fitness Data	Import, clean, and analyze seven years worth of training data tracked on the Runkeeper app.
ASL Recognition with Deep Learning	Build a convolutional neural network to classify images of letters from American Sign Language.	Keras
Bad passwords and the NIST guidelines	Check what passwords fail to conform to the National Institute of Standards and Technology password guidelines.
Book Recommendations from Charles Darwin	Build a book recommendation system using NLP and the text of books like "On the Origin of Species."
Classify Song Genres from Audio Data	Rock or rap? Apply machine learning methods in Python to classify songs into genres.
Comparing Cosmetics by Ingredients	Process ingredient lists for cosmetics on Sephora then visualize similarity using t-SNE and Bokeh.	t-SNE, Boken
Disney Movies and Box Office Success	Explore Disney movie data, then build a linear regression model to predict box office success.
Do Left-handed People Really Die Young?	Use pandas and Bayesian statistics to see if left-handed people actually die earlier than righties.
Dr. Semmelweis and the Discovery of Handwashing	Reanalyse the data behind one of the most important discoveries of modern medicine: handwashing.
Exploring 67 years of LEGO	In this project we will explore a database of every LEGO set ever built.
Exploring the Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Market	You will explore the market capitalization of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Exploring the Evolution of Linux	Find out about the evolution of the Linux operating system by exploring its version control system.
Find Movie Similarity from Plot Summaries	Use NLP and clustering on movie plot summaries from IMDb and Wikipedia to quantify movie similarity.
Generating Keywords for Google Ads	Automatically generate keywords for a search engine marketing campaign using Python.
Give Life: Predict Blood Donations	Build a binary classifier to predict if a blood donor is likely to donate again.
Mobile Games A/B Testing with Cookie Cats	Analyze an A/B test from the popular mobile puzzle game, Cookie Cats.
Naïve Bees: Deep Learning with Images	Build a deep learning model that can automatically detect honey bees and bumble bees in images.	Keras
Naïve Bees: Image Loading and Processing	Load, transform, and understand images of honey bees and bumble bees in Python.
Naïve Bees: Predict Species from Images	Build a model that can automatically detect honey bees and bumble bees in images.
Name Game: Gender Prediction using Sound	Analyze the gender distribution of children's book writers and use sound to match names to gender.
Predict Stock Trends from News Headlines	Scrape news headlines for FB and TSLA then apply sentiment analysis to generate investment insight.	BeautifulSoup
Predicting Credit Card Approvals	Build a machine learning model to predict if a credit card application will get approved.
Real-time Insights from Social Media Data	Learn to analyze Twitter data and do a deep dive into a hot trend.
Recreating John Snow's Ghost Map	Recreate John Snow's famous map of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London.
Reducing Traffic Mortality in the USA	How can we find a good strategy for reducing traffic-related deaths?	Seaborn
Risk and Returns: The Sharpe Ratio	Use pandas to calculate and compare profitability and risk of different investments using the Sharpe Ratio.
The Android App Market on Google Play	Load, clean, and visualize scraped Google Play Store data to understand the Android app market.
The GitHub History of the Scala Language	Find the true Scala experts by exploring its development history in Git and GitHub.
The Hottest Topics in Machine Learning	Use Natural Language Processing on NIPS papers to uncover the trendiest topics in machine learning research.	LDA
TV, Halftime Shows, and the Big Game	Load, clean, and explore Super Bowl data in the age of soaring ad costs and flashy halftime shows.
Up and Down With the Kardashians	Plot Google Trends data to find the most famous Kardashian/Jenner sister. Is it Kim? Kendall? Kylie?
Which Debts Are Worth the Bank's Effort?	Play bank data scientist and use regression discontinuity to see which debts are worth collecting.
Who Is Drunk and When in Ames, Iowa?	Flex your pandas muscles on breath alcohol test data from Ames, Iowa, USA.
Who's Tweeting? Trump or Trudeau?	Build a machine learning classifier that knows whether President Trump or Prime Minister Trudeau is tweeting!
Word Frequency in Moby Dick	Use web scraping and NLP to find the most frequent words in Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick.

SQL project

Project Name	Description	Note
Analyze International Debt Statistics	Write SQL queries to answer interesting questions about international debt using data from The World Bank.
Introduction to DataCamp Projects	If you've never done a DataCamp project, this is the place to start!
TV, Halftime Shows, and the Big Game	Load, clean, and explore Super Bowl data in the age of soaring ad costs and flashy halftime shows.

Cheatsheet

• Data Transformation with dplyr
• Data Visualization with ggplot2
• LATEX math notation
• Date and Time with lubridate
• Data Wrangling with pandas
• R Markdown
• Shiny
• String Manipulation with stringr