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Introduction To Data Science With Python

This document provides information about an introductory data science course with Python. The course will survey foundational topics like data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and forecasting. Students will learn to use Python libraries like pandas and Jupyter notebooks to load, clean, manipulate, analyze, visualize and model data. Through assignments and case studies, students will gain skills in data wrangling, exploration, visualization, time series analysis, machine learning techniques and their application to finance and marketing problems. The course will be taught in five interactive sessions between March and May 2019.

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Introduction To Data Science With Python

This document provides information about an introductory data science course with Python. The course will survey foundational topics like data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and forecasting. Students will learn to use Python libraries like pandas and Jupyter notebooks to load, clean, manipulate, analyze, visualize and model data. Through assignments and case studies, students will gain skills in data wrangling, exploration, visualization, time series analysis, machine learning techniques and their application to finance and marketing problems. The course will be taught in five interactive sessions between March and May 2019.

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INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE

WITH PYTHON

Doctoral seminar (4 ECTS)

Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana

September 2018

COURSE SUMM ARY

The Introduction to Data Science with Python course surveys some of the foundational topics
in data science, such as data analysis, data visualization, machine Learning, and time series
forecasting. The course is intended for students who wish to learn about the powerful Python
data science ecosystem in order to apply data analysis techniques, information visualization,
and inferential statistical analyses to gain new insights into the data. The course is taught in a
tutorial format. The focus is not on computer programming, but most of all on the use of several
practical tools and libraries in Python programming language. They will be introduced through
various case studies and practical examples from different fields of economics.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students will learn how to use the popular pandas data science library and jupyter notebooks
as their working environment for data analysis, along with the effective use of functions for
handling data. At the end of the course, students will be able to load the data from a file or
fetch it from an online service, clean it, manipulate it, run basic inferential statistical analyses
and produce comprehensive data visualizations. They will also know how to use the powerful
libraries such as scikit-learn and statsmodels in order to apply machine learning techniques
such as clustering, classification and regression, and to perform time series forecasting. They will
learn about the use of Python data science ecosystem on several practical case studies, such
as market basket analysis, portfolio optimization and online advertising on social networks.

SCHEDULE

The seminar consists of five sessions. Each session lasts about four hours and there will be at
least one week between two sessions. The seminar will be held between March and May in
2019. The exact dates can be determined according to the preferences of the participants.

Session 1: Introduction to Python data science ecosystem


Session 2: Data wrangling and data exploring

Session 3: Data visualizations and time series analysis

Session 4: Machine learning and time series forecasting

Session 5: Practical case studies from finance and marketing

GRADING

The grading will be based on four graded assignments, each given at the end of the session.
Precise instructions will be given during the course.

REQUIREMENTS AND LITERATURE REVIEW

Only a minimal background in programming is expected, and only a minimal knowledge of


statistics.

The recommended literature:

 Wes Mckinney. Python for Data Analysis. O'Reilly Media, 2013.


 Grus, Joel. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python. O'Reilly Media, 2015.

INSTRUCTORS

Matej Guid is assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University
of Ljubljana. He has extensive experience as a chief scientist, researcher, mentor, and lecturer
from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.

Martin Možina is chief data scientist in a multinational corporation and senior researcher at the
Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. He has more than ten
years of research experience from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.

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