Book

Practical Data Science with Python

The book provides a one-stop solution for getting into data science with Python and teaches how to extract insights from data.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

20h40m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

The book is intended for beginners, including students starting or about to start a data science, analytics, or related program (e.g. Bachelor’s, Master’s, bootcamp, online courses), recent college graduates who want to learn new skills to set them apart in the job market, professionals who want to learn hands-on data science techniques in Python, and those who want to shift their career to data science. The book requires basic familiarity with Python. A "getting started with Python" section has been included to get complete novices up to speed.

Book content

chapters 20h40m total length

Introduction to Data Science

Getting Started with Python

SQL and Built-in File Handling Modules in Python

Loading and Wrangling Data with Pandas and NumPy

Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization

Data Wrangling Documents and Spreadsheets

Web Scraping

Probability, Distributions, and Sampling

Statistical Testing for Data Science

Preparing Data for Machine Learning: Feature Selection, Feature Engineering, and Dimensionality Reduction

Machine Learning for Classification

Evaluating Machine Learning Classification Models and Sampling for Classification

Machine Learning with Regression

Optimizing Models and Using AutoML

Tree-Based Machine Learning Models

Support Vector Machine (SVM) Machine Learning Models

Clustering with Machine Learning

Working with Text

Data Storytelling and Automated Reporting/ Dashboarding

Ethics and Privacy

Staying Up to Date and the Future of Data Science

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