Python for Business

Suitable for:
Above 19 years old

Duration:
6 – 16 hours

This relatively intensive course takes participants from an introduction to Python, all the way through learning how to automatically access and handle large datasets from web-based APIs. We discuss the usefulness of being able to automate these tasks with Python, especially in today’s data-driven world. Participants will practice with multiple real world datasets.

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What you’ll learn

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Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be:
– able to automate processes (cleaning, filtering, combining, organising) on large datasets
– more comfortable searching for and adapting Python code found online for their own means

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Course Outline

Module 1 – Introduction to Python (6 hours)
– Introduction to Python: Variables, Functions, Loops, Conditional Statements
– Introduction to Dataframes: Importing Data, Accessing Information, Splitting/Merging/Manipulating dataframes

Module 2 – Data Visualisation (2 hours)
– Matplotlib: Plotting simple graphs
– Plot.ly: Highly customisable plots, Mapbox (plotting GPS coordinates on a map)

Module 3 – APIs (4 hours)
– How can we automatically download data?
– Intro to Python Dictionaries
– Navigating JSON data
– Translating JSON data to a dataframe
– Differences between APIs

What you’ll need

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Software

Anaconda

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Hardware

This course requires the use of laptop computers, preferably installed with Anaconda (which includes Jupyter Notebook). Although there are alternate web-based solutions, Anaconda provides the easiest user interface for participants to navigate. Participants will also need the plotly and tweepy libraries installed for their Anaconda installations.

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