Introduction to Python
July 8, 2021
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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This Python tutorial will guide participants through common tasks in data science, such as importing, manipulating, and exporting data. It is designed to be accessible to people with no previous programming experience.
Learning objectives
- use Open OnDemand to open a Jupyter notebook
- work in a Jupyter notebook to run and record Python code
- understand basic Python syntax to use functions and assign variables
- create lists
- use for-loops
- define functions
- load packages and spreadsheet-style data using Python
- extract columns, rows, and portions thereof from datasets
- calculate summary statistics
- subset data by identifying rows that meet particular conditions
- group data to summarize by category
- accommodate missing data
- export data using pandas
Registration
Registration for this event is closed. Please check back in the fall when we will offer this session again.
Date posted
Jun 7, 2021
Date updated
Jun 24, 2021