Introduction to Python and Data Analysis Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• • Administration and Course Materials
• • Course Structure and Agenda
• • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION

• • Python as an interpreted language
• • Script mode by example
• • Interactive mode
• • Statements
• • Comments
• • Whitespace and Indentation

Session 2: PYTHON: VARIABLES & SCALAR TYPES

• • Numerical types
• • Text
• • Boolean
• • Variables as references
• • The type() function

Session 3: OPERATORS & EXPRESSIONS

• • Arithmetic Operators
• • Assignment Operators
• • Comparison Operators
• • Logical Operators
• • Membership Operators

Session 4: CONTAINERS

• • Lists
• • Tuples
• • Sets
• • Dictionary

Introduction to Python and Data Analysis Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: CONDITIONS & LOOPS

• • Basic if statement
• • Else clause
• • For loop
• • While loop
• • The range function
• • Iterating over a list
• • Break
• • Continue

Session 6: FUNCTIONS

• • inbuilt functions (len(),sum(),min(),max(),sorted())
• • defining functions
• • positional arguments
• • names arguments
• • default value arguments

Session 7: OBJECTS

• • What is a Class?
• • Data Attributes and Methods
• • A simple example
• • Some methods of inbuilt containers

Introduction to Python and Data Analysis Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 8: INTRODUCTION TO DATAFRAMES

• • What is a DataFrame?
• • DataFrame attributes
• • Loading and writing DataFrames
• • Exploratory functions
• • Subsetting
• • Conditional subsetting
• • Adding and dropping columns
• • Inbuilt aggregating functions
• • Missing values

Introduction to Python and Data Analysis Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 9: GROUPBY AND AGGREGATION: SPLIT-APPLY-COMBINE

• • Groupby one column and aggregate using single inbuilt function
• • Groupby two columns and aggregate using single inbuilt function
• • Groupby one column and aggregate using separate function for each column

Session 10: PLOTTING WITH MATPLOTLIB

• • Bar chart
• • Histogram
• • Line plot