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Introdatasciencepython Week1

Python is well-suited for data science due to its ease of use, full capabilities for data processing tasks, and powerful data science libraries. The course will cover prerequisite Python knowledge, data analysis with pandas, advanced pandas techniques, statistics with numpy and scipy, and completing a project. Data science involves hacking skills, math/statistics, and domain expertise, and also data exploration, representation, modeling, visualization, and self-reflection according to different perspectives.

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Introdatasciencepython Week1

Python is well-suited for data science due to its ease of use, full capabilities for data processing tasks, and powerful data science libraries. The course will cover prerequisite Python knowledge, data analysis with pandas, advanced pandas techniques, statistics with numpy and scipy, and completing a project. Data science involves hacking skills, math/statistics, and domain expertise, and also data exploration, representation, modeling, visualization, and self-reflection according to different perspectives.

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INTRODUCTION TO DATA

Week 1 SCIENCE IN PYTHON

Python
Why Python?
1. Its easy to learn
Now the language of choice for 8 of 10 top US computer science
programs (Philip Guo, CACM)
2. Full featured
Not just a statistics language, but has full capabilities for data
acquisition, cleaning, databases, high performance computing, and more
3. Strong Data Science Libraries
The SciPy Ecosystem
INTRODUCTION TO DATA
Week 1 SCIENCE IN PYTHON

Course Outline
1. Prerequisite Python Knowledge
2. The pandas Toolkit
3. Advanced Querying and Manipulation with pandas
4. Basic Statistical Analysis with numpy and scipy, and
project
INTRODUCTION TO DATA
Week 1 SCIENCE IN PYTHON

Data Science
Drew Conway perspective on data
science:
Hacking Skills
Math and Statistics Knowledge
Substantive Expertise
Other data science perspectives:
Skepticism, experimentation,
simulation, and replication
INTRODUCTION TO DATA
Week 1 SCIENCE IN PYTHON

Data Science
David Donoho, 50 Years of Data Science
1. Data Exploration and Preparation
2. Data Representation and Transformation
3. Computing with Data
4. Data Modeling
5. Data Visualization and Presentation
6. Science about Data Science
INTRODUCTION TO DATA
Week 1 SCIENCE IN PYTHON

The map() function

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