Data resources
As with any skill, to get better we need to practice, which for us means we need to find data to practice on. There is no best dataset to practice with; rather, each person should find data that they are interested in exploring. While this section is by no means comprehensive, it contains resources for data from various topics in the hopes that everyone will find something they want to use.
Tip
Unsure of what kind of data to look for? What are some of the things you have wondered about related to a topic that you find interesting? Has data been collected on this topic, and can you access it? Let your curiosity guide you.
Python packages
Both seaborn
and scikit-learn
provide built-in sample datasets that you can experiment with in order to get more practice with the material we've covered in the book and to try out new techniques. These datasets are often very clean and thus easy to work with. Once you're comfortable with the techniques, you can...