Python is the de facto lingua franca of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Familiarity with Python is a must for modern data scientists.
You will learn the fundamentals of the Python programming language, play with Jupyter notebooks, proceed to advanced Python language features, learn to use distributed task queues (Celery), learn to work with data using NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Pandas, examine state-of-the-art machine learning libraries (Scikit-Learn, Keras, TensorFlow, and Theano), and complete a realistic, real-life data science lab.
Syllabus:
- The fundamentals of the Python programming language and Jupyter notebooks
- Jupyter notebooks
- The Python syntax
- Data types, duck typing
- Data structures: lists, sets, and dictionaries
- Data types
- Advanced Python features; distributed tasks queues with Celery
- List comprehensions
- Lambdas
- Objects
- The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
- Multithreading and multiprocessing
- Distributed task queues with Celery
- Python libraries for working with data: NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Pandas
- Multidimensional arrays in NumPy
- Linear algebra and optimisation with SciPy
- Data visualisation in Matplotlib
- Time series data
- Dealing with Pandas DataFrames
- Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn; Deep Learning with Keras, TensorFlow, and Theano
- Overview of machine learning
- Introduction to Scikit-Learn
- Keras and TensorFlow
- Introduction to Theano