
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Oregon
Ken has had a long relationship with computers both software and hardware. After spending some time learning here on Treehouse he really enjoys Python, Java, and MongoDB. Ken currently is a Developer Advocate for MongoDB working remotely in Oregon.
Topics & Specialties
Courses & Workshops I've Taught
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Scraping Data From the Web
Almost any information you want is available on the Internet. Web scraping is a key tool for data mining that information allowing for web page exploration and collection for a variety of reporting. The tools and techniques used in this course allow for data to be collected that would otherwise not be easily accessible without robotic assistance.
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3 minPractice
Practice Python While Loops
While you are learning about loops, take a moment to practice using while loops.
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5 minPractice
Practice Creating and Indexing Lists
Let's practice creating lists and printing their contents.
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6 minPractice
Practice Comparisons in Python
A quick review of data types, making comparisons, and using if and elif statements in Python.
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12 minWorkshop
Pipenv: The Python Package Manager
Pipenv is a production-ready tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds to the Python world. It harnesses Pipfile, pip, and virtualenv into one single command.
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Introduction to Data Visualization with Matplotlib
Get started creating charts with the Python library, matplotlib, an industry-standard data visualization library. Matplotlib provides a way to easily generate a wide variety of plots and charts in a few lines of Python code. It is an open-source project that can be integrated into Python scripts, jupyter notebooks, web application servers, and multiple GUI toolkits. Whether you are exploring sample data available on the internet, or your own business data, learning matplotlib is a great place to start your data visualization journey.
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Data Visualization with Bokeh
Learn how to use the Bokeh library to generate interactive charts, graphs, and other visualizations using Python. We'll explore a world population data set and see how to generate different charts using this powerful library.