Jan-08-2023, 10:55 PM
(This post was last modified: Jan-08-2023, 10:55 PM by Drone4four.)
I’m learning basic math skills with the intention of eventually studying data science. I’m enrolled in a few courses on Udemy that I got at a discount during flash sales this past holiday season. While the course content for all the courses offer terrific production value and covers the material thoroughly, what I find lacking are practice exercises.
In one math course by Krista King and Jose Portilla, the two instructors include periodic quizzes (one multiple choice practice exercise per concept). Here is the one for calculating Quartiles and IQR for example:
The correct answer is: A
That’s great. But it's only the one quiz for Quartiles and IQR. What I am looking for is a large collection of 10-20 exercises for Quartiles and IQR which all include answers for me to check afterwards to verify my solutions.
I suppose someone could provide me with an author and the title of a good physical textbook on the subject covering math concepts like Quartiles and IQR but “textbooks” are kind of “olde fashioned” now. I prefer Jupyter Notebooks and a Python interpreter because these tools are dynamic in comparison. I don’t want to use a pencil and paper to learn math.
In my experience learning Python in the past, I’ve encountered success leveraging unit tests on platforms like https://pybit.es/ and https://exercism.org/ Since these platforms don’t have a data science specific stream or line of challenges to practice math material (such as Quartiles and IQR), my question now is: What is the next closest thing to learning these core math concepts with Python? A collection of math-specific Python unit tests would be ideal but I couldn’t find anything on the web. Can anyone think of a better alternative?
I searched Google and checked Stack Overflow for answers to questions about the best all-digital math study workflow. LaTeX was a common suggestion. That might be good for note-taking but LaTeX is not designed for practicing Python programming.
How do I best learn math with Python? Again, I am looking for a collection of dynamic math practice problems with answers to compare and verify my progress with a purely digital workflow (no more pencil and paper).
In one math course by Krista King and Jose Portilla, the two instructors include periodic quizzes (one multiple choice practice exercise per concept). Here is the one for calculating Quartiles and IQR for example:
Quote:A business is trying to analyze its sales data from the past year. The data shows the amount of money made from each sale, sorted in ascending order. The business wants to find the three points that divide the dataset into four equal parts, in order to better understand the distribution of its sales. The data in USD is shown below:
[10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42, 45, 50]
What is the Interquartile Range for this data set?
A:18
B:30
C:21
D:19
The correct answer is: A
That’s great. But it's only the one quiz for Quartiles and IQR. What I am looking for is a large collection of 10-20 exercises for Quartiles and IQR which all include answers for me to check afterwards to verify my solutions.
I suppose someone could provide me with an author and the title of a good physical textbook on the subject covering math concepts like Quartiles and IQR but “textbooks” are kind of “olde fashioned” now. I prefer Jupyter Notebooks and a Python interpreter because these tools are dynamic in comparison. I don’t want to use a pencil and paper to learn math.
In my experience learning Python in the past, I’ve encountered success leveraging unit tests on platforms like https://pybit.es/ and https://exercism.org/ Since these platforms don’t have a data science specific stream or line of challenges to practice math material (such as Quartiles and IQR), my question now is: What is the next closest thing to learning these core math concepts with Python? A collection of math-specific Python unit tests would be ideal but I couldn’t find anything on the web. Can anyone think of a better alternative?
I searched Google and checked Stack Overflow for answers to questions about the best all-digital math study workflow. LaTeX was a common suggestion. That might be good for note-taking but LaTeX is not designed for practicing Python programming.
How do I best learn math with Python? Again, I am looking for a collection of dynamic math practice problems with answers to compare and verify my progress with a purely digital workflow (no more pencil and paper).