2013-02-01-Lab

• Setup GitHub account
• Find a data set or external API
• Superficially examine it
• Summarize findings
• Submit assignment via GitHub

• git tool is standard in industry
• GitHub provides best tools for sharing, commenting code
• This assignment will not have code, just practice submitting

• Create a GitHub Account, making sure to use your .edu address
• Use GitHub/Edu to request a free micro plan: these let us use private accounts
• Setup a GitHub SSH Key

• On the server ischool.berkeley.edu

$ git clone git://github.com/jblomo/datamining290.git

• On the server, in the datamining290 directory run

$ git remote rename origin jblomo

• After you recieve your free micro account on GitHub, create a private repository called datamining290
• It will provide you with an SSH git path, let's call it PATH
• You must use the SSH PATH starting with git://
• On the server, in the datamining290 directory, run

$ git remote add origin PATH
$ git push origin master

• Hopefully you now have a private copy of my repository
• Add Shreyas and me (users: seekshreyas, jblomo) as a contributor to your private repository

• Look through the links in slides for interesting data sets, or find your own
• Or find a service API, like NYTimes
• Explore the data available to answer the following questions

• What are the types of data available to you?
• For data sets: how many records are in the data set?
• For API: what are the limits on fetching data?
• Provide an "interesting" record, explain its properties and why it is interesting
• What are 3 questions you could answer using your data?

• On the ischool server, create a branch called hw-obtain-data
• Create a text file to write the solution, a simple editor to use is pico
• git add the file
• git commit the change
• git push origin hw-obtain-data to put it on GitHub
• on github, submit a "pull request" from the hw-obtain-data branch to your master branch

• Other homework assignments will be completing code
• General work-flow:
  • Start a new branch
  • Add required files
  • push to GitHub
  • Submit Pull Request