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Data Bootcamp: Spring 2022


Where and When



Problem Set Submissions

Assignments will be posted on Brightspace. Submit your work in both ipython notebook (.ipynb) and PDF (.pdf) format on Brightspace.


Week By Week Topic Guide…


Python Fundamentals I:

Handouts: Outline 1 | Outline 2 | Book | Three ideas
Examples: Gapminder | Cancer Screening | Uber in NYC | Medical Expenditures | Mortality | Earthquake | Gender Pay Gap | Fertility | Vaccines
Summary: Intro; calculations; assignments; strings; lists; tuples; built-in functions; objects; methods; tab completion; True and False; comparisons; conditionals; slicing; loops; function definitions and returns; dictionaries.
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Python Fundamentals II, Intro to Packages:

Handouts: Outline | Book chapter
Summary: Slicing; loops; function definitions and returns; dictionaries; packages; import; Pandas.
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Cleaning:

Handouts: Outline | Code_Pandas_Cleaning| Applications
Summary: Cleaning datasets.
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Filtering:

Handouts: Outline | Code_Pandas_Cleaning| Applications
Summary: Filtering data.
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Shaping:

Handouts: Shaping Outline| Book chapter
Code_Pandas_Shaping
Code examples | current indicators | demography | Airbnb
Summary: Aggregations and grouping data
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Matplotlib:

Handouts: Matplotlib Outline | Book chapter
Code_Matplotlib (Download “Raw” as ipynb)
Code examples | current indicators | demography | Airbnb
Summary: Three approaches to graphics: dataframe plot methods, plot(x,y), and fig/ax objects and methods; lines, scatters, bars, horizontal bars, styles.
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Merging:

Handouts: Code_Pandas_Combining | Summarizing
Summary: Merging. Combining dataframes (merge, concatenate).
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Regression:

Handouts:
Summary: Basic Regression Analysis
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Machine Learning:

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Summary: We will cover Scikit-learn, Machine Learning package to model various classification, regression and clustering algorithms.
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PROJECT TOUCHPOINT


FINAL PROJECT DUE (May, 2022)