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  • 1

    Introduction to Python for Data Analysis

    This chapter will get you started with Python for Data Analysis. We will cover the reasons to learn Data Science using Python, provide an overview of the Python ecosystem and get you to write your first code in Python!

  • 2

    Python Libraries and data structures

    In this chapter, we will introduce some of the most common data structures in Python to you and take you through some of the libraries we commonly use in data analysis.

  • 3

    Exploratory analysis in Python using Pandas

    We start with the first step of data analysis - the exploratory data analysis.

  • 4

    Data Munging in Python using Pandas

    Pandas is at the heart of data analysis in Python. This chapter gets you started with Data Munging in Python using Pandas

  • 5

    Building a Predictive model in Python

    We build our predictive models and make submissions to the AV DataHack platform in this section.

  • 6

    Expert advice to improve model performance

    This chapter will help to understand the approach of data science experts, "How they do approach a challenge?", "How to select a right algorithm?", "How to combine outputs of multiple algorithms?" and "How to select the right value of model parameter also known as parameter tuning?".

Initializing

Exercise

Python installation

While DataCamp provides an awesome interface to get you started, you will need to run a local instance of Python for any serious Data Science work. The simplest way would be to download Anaconda. An open source distribution of Python, it has most of the libraries & packages you would need, and removes any version conflicts. I strongly recommend this for beginners. For this course, we will be using Python 3.x

Should you install a local instance of Python on your machine to continue this course?

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