Spring 2017 Python for Data Science course
Tuesdays from April 18 – May 30, 2017
4:00 – 6:00 pm
This seven-week course will be a gentle introduction to the Python programming language and how it applies to data science. We’ll cover the following topics:
- Introduction to Python: the whats and the whys
- Data types: scalars, lists, tuples, and dictionaries
- Reading and writing files
- Flow of control I: writing conditional statements with if, elif and else
- Flow of control II: for loops
- Modularizing code by writing functions
- Data wrangling with pandas
- Data visualization with seaborn
- Regular expressions with the re module
- Web scraping with urllib
- Where to find help beyond Google: help(), dir(), Stack Overflow, pycon and puppy
This course is open to Fred Hutch faculty, staff, and affiliates. Students must bring a laptop to each class. Please be sure your laptop can connect to the Marconi on-campus wireless network prior to the first class.
Register via Eventbrite here. Please register using your Fred Hutch (or affiliate) email address so that we may verify your eligibility for the course.
Registration for each seven-week session is limited to 15 participants. If the class is full, there will be an option to add yourself to the waiting list — please do so if you’re still interested! We’ll use the waiting list in case of cancellations and to plan future sessions.