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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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overall the good introductory course of python for data science but i feel it should have covered the basics in more details .specially for the ones who do not have any prior programming background .

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I thought this was course was good, and was fairly challenging for an online-only course. I thought the lectures could have been a little longer to ensure proper coverage of materials and functions.

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By Amir G

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Apr 14, 2020

Assignments are really challenging and informative.

Lecturer explains contents concisely in an attractive manner.

Practical contents, without redundant or time wasting videos.

By Mamta

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Apr 24, 2019

Excellent course! I enjoyed it, the exercises were really good to solve, its all based on real world problems and pushed me to learn more and clear my understanding, thanks.

By Yiding Y

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Jun 23, 2018

I learned a lot in how to use Pandas for data analysis. Even though some of the assignments are tough to complete, you will feel it's worth spending time and practice on it.

By Naoto S

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Jan 28, 2018

Great course to start python data science. I'm not software engineer but was able to finish with the great contents and forums. (it was difficult and time consuming though.)

By Christos G

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Sep 1, 2017

Much appreciated and really valuable for the remaining sessions of this specialisation. Make sure you do not skip this, even if you already have some experience with Python.

By Li Z

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Aug 30, 2017

Very well designed course, especially the Jupyter notebook.

Totally accessible and user-friendly for both math/CS/stats majors and those without related background knowlege.

By Aarti K

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Nov 6, 2020

I loved the course. The assignments are challenging enough to keep you interested but not so difficult as to be discouraging. They definitely encourage individual learning.

By Atharva B T

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May 5, 2020

The hands-on programming window and integration with Jupyter notebook made it 100 times easy to learn fast.

Prof. Brooks were very clear and to the point in all the videos.

By Siddharth S

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Jun 7, 2018

The Assignments were especially challenging and intuitive.

Loved the Assignments, I think I can consider myself brushed with Python now.

Pandas Tutorial was also wonderful :D

By Ryan T S

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Jan 13, 2017

Great for someone with intermediate experience in Python. A quick way to learn the pandas package, and apply it to interesting examples. A big thank you to the instructors!

By Ryan R

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Aug 6, 2020

Amazing. Highly recommended for someone who doesn't have much working knowledge of python and is looking forward to build some data science skills quickly and effectively.

By kalpeshrwl

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Aug 18, 2019

Lots of things to understand yaa the prof. explain everything very well but not in the deep overall the course is a great start in the direction of becoming a Data Science

By Shadi A

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Oct 22, 2017

Excellent experience. Thanks to the course team for the great job. The assignments give me the opportunity to experience the objectives of the course concepts. Well done.

By J M

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Aug 20, 2017

Very informative and helpful to have first insights on data visualization technics, data charting and guidelines for good and professional data analysis and visualization.

By Thomas W

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Apr 2, 2017

Solid explanations of the basics of python and pandas. Strong emphasis on self-learning in assignments, which may be difficult for those without background in programming.

By Rafael S

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Feb 19, 2017

The course is very good and very demanding. But the assignments estimation time were, for me, really completely out. I used much more than 3 more times the suggested ones.

By Abhijit T

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Sep 7, 2022

Great introduction to Pandas and data science using Pandas. Not too difficult but makes one do enough work to use the skills learned for actual data science applications.

By Zhongkang L

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Oct 12, 2020

The assignments are challenging and will steer you towards googling / roaming through stack overflow. The process of doing so helps improve your knowledge on the subject.

By tafsirul h

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Jan 22, 2019

This course is very Useful for the student who wish to start there carirar In the field of data science , This is one of the great course that help the student to learn

By Haard M

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Oct 13, 2018

Good course for intermediate level data science enthusiasts. This course could have been made better by adding more of coding explanation and a little more python basics.

By Zach S

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Jan 12, 2018

Great. Just great. One of the first courses that I've taken where I have really been engaged. Lectures go deep and keep the good academic stuff in there for you to learn!

By Zhenyu Y

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Dec 6, 2017

Actually, I am new to Python. To complete this course and the assignments, I have referred to StackOverview, python websites and some references in Github, thanks a lot!

By MICHAEL M

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Apr 6, 2017

I highly recommend this course for data science beginners like me. python is such an easy language to learn and this course showed how easy it is for data cleaning , etc.

By Xue

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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

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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.