Are you a data science student interested in receiving an overview of Python NumPy package? Or Data manipulation with Python Pandas package? Sign up online!
Python pandas bootcamp
Taught by Ruitao Liu, Ph.D.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Additional dates: March 20 and 27, 2023
5:30 - 8 p.m.
In-person or via Zoom
This bootcamp will teach you fundamental knowledge, principles, and essential skills for manipulating messy data through hundreds of mini-tasks. The outline of the course is as follows:
- Basic Python for data science.
- Overview of Python NumPy package.
- Data manipulation with Python Pandas package
- Data set quality check (error/outlier detection, missing value imputation)
- Exploratory analysis through summary statistics.
- Data fusion (combining different data files and transferring them into suitable formats)
- Feature engineering (generating new features/variables to enhance model accuracy)
We will be using a set of Jupyter notebooks to present course materials. During the lecture, the instructor will demonstrate the notebooks using Google Colaboratory.
The Jupyter notebooks will be available 1 or 2 days before each lecture. Students may download and bring them to the class to practice while listening to the lecture.
We suggest running the notebooks using Google Colaboratory, which only needs an internet browser and a Google account.
Pre-requisites:
- Basic programming concepts include variables, data types, functions, and control flows (if/else, while/for loops).
- Previous experience using Python may be helpful but optional.
- Knowledge of writing and running Jupyter Notebooks using Google Colaboratory is valuable but not required.
Questions? Email: aixin-tan@uiowa.edu