[Tutor] How to present python experience (self-taught) to potential employer

[Jing Ai]

@Amit
Thank you for your suggestions!  I'll look into the data there and see if
there's something relevant that I can use to do a project.  Yes I believe
it would involve some data analysis (and I may need to learn R as well or
use RPy).  Do you think one project is sufficient to demonstrate my skills
if it's in-depth? Or does it take several projects?

@Japhy
Thanks for your response.  I don't really mean that I can't think of any
problems in my fields of study, but rather that I'm inexperienced in
selecting a specific problem that's appropriate (not too simple or complex)
to work with based on my current Python experience.  I agree that python
skills are demonstrated through writing though.





On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jing Ai,
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jing Ai <jai633 at g.rwu.edu> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > This is Jing and I am a recent college graduate with Biology and Public
> > Health background.  I'm currently learning python on my own when i have
> time
> > off from my PH internship.  There's a job posting that looks really idea
> for
> > me in the near future (a PH Research position) that requires "Python
> > experience" and I wonder if any of you have any suggestions how I can
> > demonstrate my python skills if I'm learning it on my own as opposed to
> > taking courses?
> >
> > Some people had previously suggested GitHub, but it seems to only show my
> > abilities to read python code and detect bugs, but not abilities to write
> > python code.  Some others suggested doing a project of my own, but I
> don't
> > currently have any data or problem to solve in my field.
>
> I am not from your background. In your field of work do you need to do
> lot of data analysis (read statistical analysis)?. Do you think you
> could find something like that and something of your interest? You
> could then use Python (the language and related tools) to perform data
> analysis, presenting data graphically, etc to work the data and infer
> some relevant conclusions. For example, http://www.quandl.com/ has
> data sets related to various fields of study.
>
> Does that sound like something you may find interesting and is relevant?
>
> Best,
> Amit.
> --
> http://echorand.me
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/attachments/20130822/28b94b62/attachment.html>