Python for Data Science

Solutions and exemplary problems coded while attending a 4 weeks course in data science using Python offered by Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.

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Python for Data Science
By Prof. Ragunathan Rengasamy | IIT Madras

Course Begin: July 25, 2022
Course Exam (Programming Test): September 16, 2022 (Duration of the session will be 3 hrs)
Course Exam (Theory Test):  September 25, 2022
Course Results: October 14, 2022

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Course layout

Week 1: 

• BASICS OF PYTHON SPYDER (TOOL)
  • Introduction Spyder
  • Setting working Directory
  • Creating and saving a script file
  • File execution, clearing console, removing variables from environment, clearing environment
  • Commenting script files
  • Variable creation
  • Arithmetic and logical operators
  • Data types and associated operations

Week 2: 

• Sequence data types and associated operations

  • Strings
  • Lists
  • Arrays
  • Tuples
  • Dictionary
  • Sets
  • Range

• NumPy

  • ndArray

Week 3: 

• Pandas dataframe and dataframe related operations on Toyota Corolla dataset

  • Reading files
  • Exploratory data analysis
  • Data preparation and preprocessing

• Data visualization on Toyoto Corolla dataset using matplotlib and seaborn libraries

  • Scatter plot
  • Line plot
  • Bar plot
  • Histogram
  • Box plot
  • Pair plot

• Control structures using Toyota Corolla dataset

  • if-else family
  • for loop
  • for loop with if break
  • while loop

• Functions

Week 4: CASE STUDY

• Regression
  • Predicting price of pre-owned cars
• Classification
  • Classifying personal income