inital set of links

Author: asimumba

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README.md

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 # Data-Science-material
 This repository contains files and links to helpful data science reference material. 
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+**People to follow**
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+[Hadley Wickham]()
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+[	Daniel Emaasit Emaasit]() Data Scientist from Tanzania
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+[Xander Horn](https://github.com/XanderHorn) Data Scientist based in South Africa. Involved in investments and portfolio optimization research.
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+[Michael Galarnyk](https://github.com/mGalarnyk) Data Scientist. He maintains a reach collection of data science materials which covers data science courses from Coursera and tutorials on Python data analysis environment set-up. Follow his [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelGalarnyk) channel for exciting video tutorials.
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+[Joel Grus](https://github.com/joelgrus) Python data science book author. You can access his book at his website:[http://joelgrus.com/](http://joelgrus.com/)
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+[Wes Mckinney](https://github.com/wesm) Pandas library author. His website: [http://wesmckinney.com/](http://wesmckinney.com/)
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+[Ramnath Vaidyanathan](https://github.com/ramnathv) His main focus is on interactive visualisation with implementation in JavaScript and R.