Python for Data Science
Python for Data Science is an introductory and beginners’ course to learning and understanding the fundamentals of coding in Python, a powerful, modern, industry demanding language. Participants will learn to write programs, perform various operations, manipulate and visualize data. Participants completing this course will be prepared to take up the advanced modules.
Hyper Island sessions are highly interactive and engaging. We let you try things by yourself, work in small group breakout sessions. There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions and engage with the facilitator. They will share many tools so that you will be able to develop data confidence and use back at work.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- Understand basic operations on Python
- Understand OOP functionality in Python
- Learn about control structure and looping in Python
- Learning to code using the OOP concepts
- How to access and get data from external sources
- Working with strings and text
- Learn and code complex programs using Python Libraries
- Understand how to plot basic charts and graphs
- Learn how to scrape data from the web and source data using APIs
Pre Requisites
There are no pre-requisites required for this course. This course is targeted towards those who want to learn basic programming in python.
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At Hyper Island, we believe in "Telling less & Doing more" Hyper Island Learning Experiences are highly interactive and engaging. We let you try things by yourself, work in small group breakout sessions. There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions and engage with the 3 facilitators in the 2 days.
Our Learning experiences help participants learn transferable skills that can be directly applied to their own workplace and career. We will draw on current and emerging international, local & Asian perspectives and case studies; and help participants consider the legal, social and ethical issues involved.