README.md

Data Science Workshop: hacking OcKupid through data analysis

This is a Data Science Workshop by UpCode Academy.

It gives an overview of Data Science and showcases the power of it by hacking the online dating site OkCupid.

The code in this jupyter notebook scrapes data from OkCupid users and runs some algorithms to obtain some conclusions over it.

To open the presentation you can:

Option 1: execute remotely (easier and recommended option)

datascience.marcogg.com

Option 2: execte locally (for the more experience ones)

1. Install conda, see its documentation
2. Clone this repo using git
3. Create a new conda environment

$ conda env create -n lanedetection -f binder/environment.yml

4. Execute the jupyter notebook

$ jupyter notebook

5. Open the url shown in the console with your favourite browser
6. Enjoy the presentation!

Option 3: checkout the notebook (with no option to execute the code)

Online notebook (read only)

Once opened you can see it in presentation mode (by clicking on the icon on the top right corner that looks like a present). Although no style file will be loaded and your presentation background will be plain white.