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A CRASH COURSE ON PYTHON

THE EASIEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE TO LEARN
DATA SCIENCE/ANALYTICS TOOLS
The first decision that must be made in choosing a data
science platform is whether to use an application-based
solution or to use a programming language.

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DATA SCIENCE/ANALYTICS TOOLS
APPLICATION-BASED SOLUTIONS
▪ Well-designed application-based, or point-and-click,
tools make it very quick and easy to develop and
evaluate models, and to perform associated data
manipulation tasks.
▪ Using one of these tools, it is possible to train, evaluate,
and deploy a predictive analytics model in less than an
hour!
▪ Important application-based solutions for building
predictive analytics models include IBM SPSS
Modeler, SAS Enterprise Miner, RapidMiner Studio,
KNIME Analytics Platform, Weka and H20.ai.

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Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms 2019
Source: Gartber (2019)

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Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms 2020
Source: Gartber (2020)

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DATA SCIENCE/ANALYTICS TOOLS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
▪ Two of the most commonly used programming
languages for predictive analytics are R and
Python.
▪ Building predictive analytics models using a
language like R or Python is not especially difficult.
▪ The advantage of using a programming language
for predictive analytics projects is that it gives the
data analyst huge flexibility. Anything that the
analyst can imagine can be implemented.

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Top Software for Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning in 2018

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CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON
WHAT & WHY?

2. HOW TO PRACTICE PYTHON

GOOGLE COLAB + DATACAMP

3. BASIC THINGS TO KNOW IN PYTHON

TYPES & OPERATORS
CONTROL FLOW STATEMENTS
FUNCTIONS & METHODS
MODULES & PACKAGES

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WHAT IS PYTHON?

https://www.python.org

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WHY PYTHON?
HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE, EASE OF LEARNING
▪ Python is easy to understand, and it is capable of
encapsulating relatively complex problems in
statements which makes the problem look relatively
simple, reducing the effort.
▪ Python has a shallow learning curve and it is one of the
easiest languages to learn to come up to speed.

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 Overall question views for Python
https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/

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WHY PYTHON?
INTERPRETED LANGUAGE
▪ Data analysis is mostly an iterative process, where
lots of exploration needs to be done in an ad-hoc
manner.
▪ Python (like R) being an interpreted language
provides an interactive interface for accomplishing
this.

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WHY PYTHON?
GENERAL-PURPOSE LANGUAGE
▪ Python has a comprehensive set of core
libraries for data science. Python (unlike R) is
not built only for data science, it is a general-
purpose language.
▪ Python can be used to build desktop
applications, enterprise applications, web
applications, mobile apps, games and is
easier to integrate with existing systems in an
enterprise.

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WHY PYTHON?
PLATFORM INDEPENDENT
▪ Data science projects need extraction of data
from various sources, data cleaning, data
imputation beside model building, validation,
and making predictions. Enterprises typically
want to build an end-to-end integrated systems
and Python is a powerful platform to build
these systems.
▪ Python is supported by many platforms like
Linux, Windows, Macintosh.

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WHY PYTHON?
MASSIVE COMMUNITY
▪ Python is developed under an open-source license,
making it freely usable and distributable, even for
commercial use.
▪ Python has an amazing ecosystem and is excellent
for developing prototypes quickly.
▪ Python’s strong community continuously evolves its
data science libraries and keeps it cutting edge. It
has libraries for linear algebra computations,
statistical analysis, machine learning, visualization,
optimization,…

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PYTHON LIBRARIES FOR DATA SCIENCE
▪ numpy Mathematical computations
▪ statsmodels Statistical modelling
▪ scipy Scientific computing
▪ pandas Data structure operations
▪ matplotlib, seaborn Data visualization
▪ scikit-learn Machine learning
▪ tensorflow, pytorch Deep learning
▪ nltk Natural language processing
▪ librosa Music and audio processing
▪ scikit-video Video processing
▪ …
https://pypi.org

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WHO USES PYTHON?

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 WHY PYTHON?

Interpreted language

General-purpose language

High-level language

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HOW TO PRACTICE PYTHON
▪ For any programmer, and by extension, for
any data scientist, the integrated
development environment (IDE) is an
essential tool.
▪ IDEs are designed to maximize programmer
productivity. In general, the basic pieces of
any IDE are three: the editor, the
compiler/interpreter and the debugger.

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HOW TO PRACTICE PYTHON: ANACONDA

https://www.anaconda.com

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HOW TO PRACTICE PYTHON: JUPITER
▪ With the advent of web applications, a new
generation of IDEs for interactive languages such
as Python has been developed.
▪ IPython notebook is an interactive console which
shows the Python execution results very clearly and
concisely by means of cells.
▪ Jupyter (for Julia, Python and R) aims to reuse the
same web-based IDE for all these interpreted
languages and not just Python.
▪ Colab notebooks are Jupyter notebooks that are
hosted by Google Colab.
https://ipython.org | https://jupyter.org

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HOW TO PRACTICE PYTHON: COLAB

https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb

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HOW TO PRACTICE PYTHON: DATACAMP

https://www.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-data-science-in-python

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Course
Descripton

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Instruction:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=0wOSefc7kp8

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BASIC THINGS TO KNOW IN PYTHON
1. Scalar (int, float, bool) and collection types (str, list,
tuple, dict, set)
2. Assignment (=), arithmetic (+ – * / % //) and relational
operators (== != < > <= =>)
3. Conditional statements (if … elif … else …)
4. Looping statements (while loops and for loops)
5. Functions and methods
6. Modules and packages
https://github.com/nnbphuong/datascience4biz/blo
b/master/Introduction_to_Python.ipynb

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PYTHON CULTURE
▪ Python community embraces a set of values,
practices and philosophies and most of them
are documented in the Python Enhancement
Proposals (PEPs).
▪ You can find a set of widely adopted
conventions and Python principles at this link:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/
▪ The most important PEP is PEP8.

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