Flatiron School Blog

These days, if you want to work as a professional software developer, you’re going to need to learn how to use Git. A version control system (VCS) is nothing new. Over the years, we’ve had a number of VCS’ including CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Microsoft TFS, and Perforce. For the last few years, Git has become […]

San Francisco. Silicon Valley. When you think of the Bay Area, you think of tech. Some of the biggest tech companies in the world call the city home. Much like the adage of going to Hollywood to get your big break, many would-be software engineers, data scientists, and UX/UI designers consider San Francisco the place […]

Historically, many data scientists didn’t use “software development” tools like version control systems. These days as their code becomes more sophisticated and data scientists are increasingly influenced by their software engineering partners, it’s becoming increasingly important to learn how to skillfully use a version control system like Git. In this brief, hands-on introduction, you’ll learn […]

In 2013, hackers stole data from over 40 million Target shoppers during the holiday season. In 2014, hackers stole credit card data from 56 million Home Depot customers. In a 2019 Facebook breach, 19 million UK residents were affected. The potential for this data to be used for fraudulent charges or identity theft was a […]

While most articles focus on deep learning and modeling, as a practicing data scientist you’re probably going to spend much more time finding, accessing, and cleaning up data than you will running models against it. In this post, you’ll get a quick, hands-on introduction to using the Python “Pandas” library. Whether you’re taking your first […]

Just in time for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re launching our first Cybersecurity Analytics course on our London campus.