Once you've got some data, you're going to be eager to dig into it! Our tool of choice for data analysis is Python. Start off with Intro to Git and Python, then move onto Data Exploration in Python. If you're combining data from multiple sources, you'll have to do record linkage to match entities across datasets. Depending on your particular project, you may need special methods and tools; at this time, we have resources for working with text data, spatial data and network data.