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Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by westurner on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:39PM (#32420925)
There are many ways to do ~no-code GUI analysis with [Jupyter] notebooks (e.g. with the VSCode jupyter notebook support) pretty quickly; with some pointing and clicking of the mouse if you please.

Computational Notebook speedrun competition ideas:

- Arithmetic w/ `assert`: addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponents/logarithms; and then again with {NumPy, SymPy, Lean Mathlib}

- Growth curve fitting; data modeling with linear and better models

- "Principia" work-along notebooks

- "Princeton Companion to [Applied] Mathematics" work-along notebooks

- Khan Academy work-along notebooks

Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by westurner on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:46PM (#32420960)
> - Arithmetic w/ `assert`: addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponents/logarithms; and then again with {NumPy, SymPy, Lean Mathlib}

"How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19452752 ...

"How should logarithms be taught?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28519356

Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by digdugdirk on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:29AM (#32421905)
Any good recommendations for starting points to learn how to work with these? I'm not a programmer, but do have programming ability, and use excel all the time. Having a more flexible system with better inputs (tying in web scraping, data pipelines, etc) sounds like a great idea.
Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by westurner on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:51AM (#32423510)
Kaggle learn: https://www.kaggle.com/learn

"Python Data Science Handbook" (O'Reilly) http://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook

awesome-python#web-content-extracting: https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#web-content-extracti...

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/

"What is the best way to learn to code from absolute scratch?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299880

Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by onefuncman on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:16AM (#32422508)
Re:The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN by westurner on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:03AM (#32421456)
> - Growth curve fitting; data modeling with linear and better models

Input: at least a two-column table

Output: a symbolic (or NN) model with minimal error in predicting the test half of the data after a `test_train_split()`-like routine.