Introductory Python

This is a class for computer-literate people with no programming background who wish to learn basic Python programming. The course is aimed at those who want to learn “data wrangling”  manipulating downloaded files to make them amenable to analysis.

We concentrate on language basics such as list and string manipulation, control structures, simple data analysis packages, and introduce modules for downloading data from the web.

This course is an introduction to data analysis with the Python programming language, and is aimed at beginners. We introduce how to work with different data structure in Python.

We covered the most popular modules, including Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, matplotlib, and Seaborn, to do data analytics and visualization. We use ipython notebook to demonstrate the results of codes and change codes interactively during the class.