Kaggle&#x27;s &quot;Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster&quot; [0] is a great place to start. If you&#x27;re anxious to dive in, go straight to &quot;Getting Started with Excel&quot; [1] and move on to &quot;Getting Started with Python&quot; [2]<p>Note: I&#x27;d strongly recommend the Anaconda Python distribution [3], as it has pretty much everything you need. Also, for immediate feedback on what you&#x27;re doing with Python, I&#x27;ve fallen in love with Jupyter Notebooks (formerly IPython Notebooks) [4], which you&#x27;ll have as part of the Anaconda distribution, along with all the other popular Python packages for scientific work.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;titanic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;titanic</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;titanic&#x2F;details&#x2F;getting-started-with-excel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;titanic&#x2F;details&#x2F;getting-started-wit...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;titanic&#x2F;details&#x2F;getting-started-with-python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaggle.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;titanic&#x2F;details&#x2F;getting-started-wit...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continuum.io&#x2F;downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continuum.io&#x2F;downloads</a><p>[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipython.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipython.org</a>