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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

This book will teach Python to complete beginners through a set of 3 practical projects. Its content goes over developing a handful of scripts, performing data analysis, train machine learning models and roll them into production. We will further outline the advanced topics and direct readers to relevant resources.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

16h4m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you want to learn Python or data science in a fun and engaging way, this book is for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re a high school student, researcher, analyst, or anyone with little or no coding experience with an interest in the subject and courage to learn, fail, and learn from failing. A basic understanding of how computers work will be useful.

Book content

chapters 16h4m total length

Preparing the workspace

First Steps in coding variables and data types

Functions

Data Structures

Loops and other compound statements

First script: Geocoding with Web APIs

Scraping Data from the Web with Beautiful Soup 4

Simulation with Classes and inheritance

Shell, Git, Conda, and More at Your Command

Python for Data Applications

Data cleaning and manipulation

Data Exploration and Visualization

Training a Machine Learning model

Improving your Models Metrics pipelines and experiments

Packaging and testing with poetry and pytest

Data Pipelines with Luigi

Lets build a dashboard

Serving models with Rest API

Serverless API using Chalice

Best practices and Python performance

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