Data Analysis with Python

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

It is very important in the current age of big data and data-driven business models to have basic skills of programming. This course introduces students to Python, a widely used programming language among data scientists, with the goal of cleaning, modeling, transforming and analyzing data. Students will learn fundamentals of programming, use python packages for acquiring data from various sources, learn skills to slice and dice the data and produce data visualizations. They will gain experience in Python and apply these skills in generating reproducible reports in business contexts. Also, this course prepares them for more advanced data science and machine learning methods.