Coding Vignette- Writing Math in Markdown
When working as a data scientist, and in particular, communicating your results and work in a technical document, you will need to be able to write mathematical expressions. One powerful tool for doing this is called LaTeX. LaTex is a its own programming language designed for rendering technical publications. It is commonly used in math and scientific fields, but a small subset of the language has been adopted in other environments including Microsoft Word and markdown, allowing you to render math using LaTeX commands. Knowing how to do this will be helpful for your homeworks, so I’ve decided to make a short video showing you the very basics of how this works.
Click here to watch the video on youtube
There are a number of documents on the internet which explain the finer details of latex, and most of the lecture slides I shared use it, so you can see examples of how it works. I have also included the ipython notebook