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About the Course

This course will introduce the learner to the basics of the python programming environment, including fundamental python programming techniques such as lambdas, reading and manipulating csv files, and the numpy library. The course will introduce data manipulation and cleaning techniques using the popular python pandas data science library and introduce the abstraction of the Series and DataFrame as the central data structures for data analysis, along with tutorials on how to use functions such as groupby, merge, and pivot tables effectively. By the end of this course, students will be able to take tabular data, clean it, manipulate it, and run basic inferential statistical analyses. This course should be taken before any of the other Applied Data Science with Python courses: Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python, Applied Machine Learning in Python, Applied Text Mining in Python, Applied Social Network Analysis in Python....

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CB

Feb 6, 2023

The assessments, quizzes, and course coverage are quite good. The main points are covered, although it does not cover everything. Additionally, it provides opportunities to learn and conduct research.

PK

May 9, 2020

The course had helped in understanding the concepts of NumPy and pandas. The assignments were so helpful to apply these concepts which provide an in-depth understanding of the Numpy as well as pandans

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By Xue

Jan 7, 2017

The course is fantastic! By practicing with the assignments, I improved a lot in python programming. I am now confident in doing data cleaning and manipulation in python.

By Evan G

Jul 19, 2018

Immediately after this class I was able to much more effectively visualize tabular data on my research project and build more effective notebooks to share with my peers.

By Matthew K

Mar 2, 2017

Great introduction to the world of data science. Instructor does a great job of explaining the content with easy to follow examples. I highly recommend taking the course

By Josef R

Apr 3, 2022

Great intro for newbies. Recommend to do zour own project with this course + try to solve it and after some hickups go for inspiration. This is the best way to learn :)

By Bruno S

Sep 13, 2020

This course is just awesome! It dives deep into each topic! The only thing you must make sure before enroling is that your knowledge in Python is at least intermediate.

By Maneesh K

Nov 22, 2017

This is good introductory course which exposes the learner to data science fundamentals. The learner need to practise to get more grounding especially in data cleaning.

By Sanket

Nov 19, 2017

Nice course to get started with Data science, hopefully i can combine this with kaggle based challenges.

looking forward to the rest of the courses in the specialization

By Birbal V

Feb 24, 2017

Very helpful for beginners who wants to learn Data Science with Python. Will recommend to go with this course. Thank you team for giving nice teaching. Very Grateful :)

By Jon B

Jan 31, 2021

Great course if you are looking to build basic data science skills! The forum and community are extremely helpful for if/when you get stuck on a problem or assignment!

By Fan G

Mar 23, 2020

it would be much better if the assignment materials can be taught first and then assigned as homework. I feel some of the practice need information from the next week.

By Ryan R

Jan 4, 2019

assignments were interesting as it required individual learning which led us to research on stack overflow and the pandas doc. Also the discussion forums were helpful.

By Atila d S P

Nov 27, 2017

Great course.

I would like to thank all people involved. I applied the techniques and concepts taught here in my own projects (Ph.D. in Geophysics) from the first week.

By KE Z

Nov 12, 2017

This is a nice course, even though lecture seems easy, bu programming assignment is very interesting, challenging and inspiring. The discussion forums is very helpful.

By Srinivas

Jul 17, 2017

Excellent course - I grabbed to increase my confidence in applying Python for data analysis. It definitely improved my coding skills. Will do next course on plotting!!

By Michael N

Mar 23, 2017

Excellent overview of the topic. Lectures are well delivered, if a bit terse. Assignments are well designed, and the mentors in the discussion forums are very helpful.

By Estefania D L

Aug 5, 2020

El contenido del curso es muy completo y claro, además las tareas son muy enriquecedoras de realizar y nos motivan a investigar y practicar por nuestra propia cuenta.

By Vaibhav R K

May 10, 2020

I really enjoyed learning. The course really enhanced my knowledge in Data Science . The assignment are pretty hard and good . At last the course is really worth it.

By PEILIN P

Apr 14, 2020

I feel this course really helps me build a solid foundation of Python coding. It covers a wide range of coding details and encourages students to learn by themselves!

By Davis V

Nov 17, 2018

Amazing first course on Pandas. I can confidently say i feel more confident with Pandas, and basic Python for data science programming after taking this first course.

By David G

Apr 24, 2017

Very informative. Would be interested to see the correct way to complete many of the assignments, as I'm sure there are more elegant ways to complete them than I used

By Joshan M

Nov 24, 2016

Very hard course comparatively speaking, especially when one needs to manage so many other things. But I think it was worth the figurative blood and tears. Thank you!

By Cameron W

Jul 20, 2021

Really excellent course that teaches the fundamentals of data manipulation with Python. Great place to start learning DS for anyone with basic programming knowledge.

By Kimhor M

Oct 22, 2020

I've learnt Pandas many times but I think this time I've understood it deeper and clearer. Assignment in Week 3 seems unclear to me. Overall, this is a great course.

By MOLINA N A F

Oct 15, 2020

It is a complete course that can help you to handle data efficiently with python, the most part have to do it by yourself so it is perfect to begin in data science.

By Prajakta k

May 22, 2020

Very Informative practical sessions. staff is also quick approchable to the queries raised in solving practical assignments.

Thanks a lot for upgrading my knowlege!!!