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Introduction to Python
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Location:
Online via Zoom
Online via Zoom
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Python
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Fees:
Students: 330 €
Academics: 495 €
Commercial: 990 €
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Lecturer(s): Hannah Béchara, Paulina Garcia Corral
Course description
This course is an introduction to programming with Python with a special focus on data analysis and machine learning, for which the programming language is known to be particularly powerful. Through morning lectures and afternoon applied sessions, the participants will learn the fundamentals of programming as well as how to use Python as a powerful tool for data wrangling, data visualization, and data analysis. The objectives of the course are to give participants the tools that all basic programming tasks need as well as an overview of the specific topics needed to carry out analyses for multiple data types.
Organizational structure of the course
Morning sessions will be lecture-based, with introduction to fundamentals accompanied by quick exercises to practice the acquired knowledge. Afternoon sessions will be project-based: the objective is to, as a group, program a sentiment analysis classifier for Twitter Data, using all the essentials learned during the mornings. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to read data files, manipulate data using base Python, create and manipulate data frames using Pandas, and run analyses on their data using NumPy and scikit-Learn.
Target group
Participants will find the course useful if:
Learning objectives
By the end of the course participants will:
Prerequisites
This course has no specific prerequisites.
Software requirements
Participants should have a Google account as Google Colab will be used for the course.