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Course Syllabus

CS250: Python for Data Science

Course Introduction

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: What is Data Science?

1.1: Introduction to Data Science

1.2: How Data Science Works

1.3: Important Facets of Data Science

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: Python for Data Science

2.1: Google Colaboratory

2.2: Datatypes, Operators, and the math Module

2.3: Control Statements, Loops, and Functions

2.4: Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries

2.5: The random Module

2.6: The matplotlib Module

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: The numpy Module

3.1: Constructing Arrays

3.2: Indexing

3.3: Array Operations

3.4: Saving and Loading Data

Unit 3 Assessment

Unit 4: Applied Statistics in Python

4.1: Basic Statistical Measures and Distributions

4.2: Random Numbers in numpy

4.3: The scipy.stats Module

4.4: Data Science Applications

Unit 4 Assessment

Unit 5: The pandas Module

5.1: Dataframes

5.2: Data Cleaning

5.3: pandas Operations: Merge, Join, and Concatenate

5.4: Data Input and Output

5.5: Visualization Using the pandas Module

Unit 5 Assessment

Unit 6: Visualization

6.1: The seaborn Module

6.2: Advanced Data Visualization Techniques

6.3: Data Science Applications

Unit 6 Assessment

Unit 7: Data Mining I – Supervised Learning

7.1: Data Mining Overview

7.2: Supervised Learning

7.3: Principal Component Analysis

7.4: k-Nearest Neighbors

7.5: Decision Trees

7.6: Logistic Regression

7.7: Training and Testing

Unit 7 Assessment

Unit 8: Data Mining II – Clustering Techniques

8.1: Unsupervised Learning

8.2: K-means Clustering

8.3: Hierarchical Clustering

8.4: Training and Testing

Unit 8 Assessment

Unit 9: Data Mining III – Statistical Modeling

9.1: Linear Regression

9.2: Residuals

9.3: Overfitting

9.4: Cross-Validation

Unit 9 Assessment

Unit 10: Time Series Analysis

10.1: The statsmodels Module

10.2: Autoregressive (AR) Models

10.3: Moving Average (MA) Models

10.4: Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Models

Unit 10 Assessment

Study Guide

Course Feedback Survey

Certificate Final Exam

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