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Applied Data Science with Python SpecializationUniversity of Michigan

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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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Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 34 hours to complete

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What you will learn

Understand techniques such as lambdas and manipulating csv files
Describe common Python functionality and features used for data science
Query DataFrame structures for cleaning and processing
Explain distributions, sampling, and t-tests

Skills you will gain

Python Programming
Numpy
Pandas
Data Cleansing

Flexible deadlines

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Course 1 of 5 in the

Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

Intermediate Level

Approx. 34 hours to complete

English

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Christopher Brooks

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

13 hours to complete

Fundamentals of Data Manipulation with Python

In this week you'll get an introduction to the field of data science, review common Python functionality and features which data scientists use, and be introduced to the Coursera Jupyter Notebook for the lectures. All of the course information on grading, prerequisites, and expectations are on the course syllabus, and you can find more information about the Jupyter Notebooks on our Course Resources page.

13 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 111 min), 6 readings, 2 quizzes

12 videos

Introduction to Specialization3mIntroduction to the Course4mThe Coursera Jupyter Notebook System8mPython Functions8mPython Types and Sequences8mPython More on Strings3mPython Demonstration: Reading and Writing CSV files3mPython Dates and Times2mAdvanced Python Objects, map()5mAdvanced Python Lambda and List Comprehensions2mNumerical Python Library (NumPy)32mManipulating Text with Regular Expression27m

6 readings

Syllabus10mNotice for Auditing Learners: Assignment Submission10mHelp Us Learn More About You!10mWeek 1 Textbook Reading Assignment (Optional)2h50 years of Data Science, David Donoho (Optional)1h 30mRegular Expression Operations documentation1h

1 practice exercise

Quiz 130m

Week2

Week 2

7 hours to complete

Basic Data Processing with Pandas

7 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 89 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

8 hours to complete

More Data Processing with Pandas

8 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 84 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

7 hours to complete

Answering Questions with Messy Data

7 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 20 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE IN PYTHON

by PTJan 15, 2017

Very good course assignments and projects. Really learnt good by exploring stackoverflow and other forums to complete the assignments. Please include some detailed lectures in the upcoming modules.

by PSAug 11, 2020

Assignments are way tougher than what is taught in the class, but they are challenging and the help in discussion forums is speechless. Without that, completion of assignments will take too much time.

by DTJun 28, 2021

Fantastic course that I learned alot from. The assignments were tougher than I expected, and it was a great way to really groke the concepts. My only criticism was that the auto-grader wasn't great.

by AUDec 9, 2017

Wow, this was amazing. Learned a lot (mostly thanks to stack overflow) but the course also opened my eyes to all the possibilities available out there and I feel like i'm only scratching the surface!

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About the Applied Data Science with Python Specialization

The 5 courses in this University of Michigan specialization introduce learners to data science through the python programming language. This skills-based specialization is intended for learners who have a basic python or programming background, and want to apply statistical, machine learning, information visualization, text analysis, and social network analysis techniques through popular python toolkits such as pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, nltk, and networkx to gain insight into their data.

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