Python for Data Science
Curriculum:
Module 01 – An Introduction to python
Introductory Remark about Python
A Brief History of Python
How Python is different from other languages
Python Version
Installing Python
IDLE
Getting Help
How to execute a Python program?
Writing your first program
Module 02 – Python Basics
Introduction
Python keywords and Identifiers
Python statements
Comments in python
Basic Syntax
Printing on screen
Getting user input -Reading data from keyboard
Exercise
Key Takeaways
Module 03 – Variables and data types
Introduction
Variables
Data types
Numbers
Strings
Module 04 – Arrays in Python
Lists
Tuples
Dictionary
Exercise
Module 05 – Decision making & Loops
Introduction
Control flow and syntax
The if statement
Python operators
The while Loop
Break and continue
The for Loop
Pass statement
Exercise
Module 06 – Function
Introduction of Function
Calling a function
Function arguments
Built in function
Scope of variables
Decorators
Passing function to a function
Module 07 – Modules and Packages
Introduction of Modules and Packages
Importing Modules
Standard Modules- sys
Standard Modules- OS
The dir() Function
Packages
Module 08 – Exception Handling
Introduction of Exception Handling
Errors
Run Time Errors
Handling IO Exception
Try….except statement
Raise
Assert
Module 09 – File Handling in Python
Introduction of Exception Handling
Introduction to File Handling in Python
Files and Directories
Writing Data to a file
Reading data from a file
Additional file methods
Working with files
Working with Directories
The pickle Module
Module 10 – Mathematical Computing using NumPy
Introduction of NumPy in Python
Install NumPy
NumPy Creating Arrays
Operations Using NumPy
NumPy Data Types
NumPy – Array Creation Routines
NumPy – Indexing & Slicing
NumPy – Advanced Indexing
NumPy Integer Indexing
NumPy Boolean Array Indexing
NumPy – Iterating Over Array
NumPy – Broadcasting
NumPy – Array Manipulation
NumPy – Mathematical Functions
Vectorization for fast computation
Matrix operations (dot(), det(), inv())
Random sampling (np.random.choice(), np.random.rand())
Module 11 – Data visualization using Matplotlib
Data Visualization
Considerations of Data Visualization
Factors of Data Visualization
Python Libraries
Create Your First Plot Using Matplotlib
Line Properties
Create a Line Plot for Football Analytics
Multiple Plots and Subplots
Create a Plot with Annotation
Create Multiple Plots to Analyze the Skills of the Players
Create Multiple Subplots Using plt.subplots
Types of plots
Create a Stacked Histogram
Create a Scatter Plot of Pretest scores and Posttest Scores
Create a Pie Chart
Create a Bar Chart
Create Box Plots
Analyzing Variables Individually
Module 12 – Pandas
Introduction to Pandas
Data structures of Pandas
Pandas Series
Pandas DataFrames
Pandas Object creation
Viewing Pandas data
Selection on Pandas Data
Operations on Pandas Data
Essential basic functionality on Pandas DataFrame
Head and tail on Pandas DataFrame
Attributes and underlying data
Grouping
Sorting
Importing and exporting data
Indexing and selecting data
Different choices for indexing
Attribute access
Slicing ranges
Selecting random samples
Module 13- Data Preprocessing & Cleaning
Handling missing values (dropna(), fillna())
Handling duplicate data
String operations for text cleaning (strip(), lower(), replace())
Working with timestamps (pd.to_datetime())
Feature scaling (StandardScaler, MinMaxScaler)
Module 14-Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Understanding distributions using histograms & box plots
Correlation analysis (corr())
Detecting outliers
Visualizing relationships using pair plots & scatter plots
Grouping and aggregation
Module 15-Working with APIs & Web Scraping (After File Handling)
Calling APIs with Python (requests)
Parsing JSON/XML data
Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup
Handling API rate limits
Capstone Project: Data Analysis Using Python
