MATH 131: Introduction to Python#

Target Audience#

Anyone who wants to do their own data analysis! This is a primer to get the complete novice up and running with the basic knowledge of how to use the computer programming language Python for data analysis. Topics include: Python programming basics, importing data, properties of tidy data, visualizing data, reproducible research with Markdown and basic data wrangling. This course is designed as a pre-requisite for most upper division Statistics and all Data Science courses which use Python.

See the syllabus for details about the current class offerings.

Schedule#

Week 00: Start here#

Week 01: Python basics#

Week 02: Introduction to working with data#

Week 03: Wrangling data and intro to graphing#

Week 04: Intermediate graphing & importing external data#

Week 05: Putting it all together#

Week 06 and beyond#