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

2013-08-23 Thread Japhy Bartlett
Jing - You demonstrate skill at writing python by writing python. If you don't have data, write something to scrape data. If you seriously can't think of any problems or interesting side projects to solve in either of your fields, bluntly, you're almost certainly worthless as a researcher. Go b

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

2013-08-23 Thread Japhy Bartlett
One project is fine, unless your competition has finished two. Start at least with one script in each language that you want on your resume that does some sort of analysis on a set of data. With all due respect to Amit, if you are going for academic work don't bother with tests or documentation,

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

2013-08-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 23/08/13 03:45, Jing Ai wrote: 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 learn

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

2013-08-22 Thread 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 ski

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

2013-08-22 Thread Amit Saha
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Jing Ai wrote: > @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). D

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

2013-08-22 Thread Amit Saha
Hi Jing Ai, On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jing Ai 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 reall

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

2013-08-22 Thread Jing Ai
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