Data Science with Python Syllabus
SECTION I --- Python Basics
Lesson 1: Overview
• Why do we need Python?
• Program structure
Environment Setup
• Python Installation
• Execution Types
o What is an interpreter?
o Interpreters vs Compilers
o Using the Python Interpreter
o Interactive Mode
o Running python files
o Working with Python shell
o Integrated Development Environments (IDES)
o Interactive Mode Programming
o Script Mode Programming
Lesson 2 : Basic Concepts
• Basic Operators
o Types of Operator
o Python Arithmetic Operators
o Python Comparison Operators
o Python Assignment Operators
o Python Bitwise Operators
o Python Logical Operators
o Python Membership Operators (in, not in)
o Python Identity Operators (is, is not)
o Python Operators Precedence
• Data Types
o Variables
o Assigning Values to Variables
o Multiple Assignment
o Python Numbers
o Python Strings
▪ Accessing Values in Strings
▪ String Special Operators
▪ String Formatting Operator
▪ Triple Quotes
▪ Built-in String Operations
o Python Lists
▪ Accessing Values in Lists
▪ Updating Lists
▪ Delete List Elements
▪ Basic List Operations
▪ Indexing, Slicing, and Matrixes
▪ Built-in List Functions & Methods
o Python Tuples
▪ Accessing Values in Tuples
▪ Updating Tuples
▪ Delete Tuple Elements
▪ Basic Tuples Operations
▪ Indexing, Slicing, and Matrixes
▪ No Enclosing Delimiters
▪ Built-in Tuple Functions
o Python Dictionary
▪ Accessing Values in Dictionary
▪ Updating Dictionary
▪ Delete Dictionary Elements
▪ Properties of Dictionary Keys
▪ Built-in Dictionary Functions & Methods
Lesson 3:Loops and Decision Making
o if statements
o if...else statements
o nested if statements
o while loop
o for loop
o nested loops
o Loop Control Statements
o 1) break statement
o 2) continue statement
o 3) pass statement
Lesson 4 :Functions
o Defining a Function
o Syntax
o Calling a Function
o Pass by reference vs value
o Function Arguments
o Required arguments
o Keyword arguments
o Default arguments
o Variable-length arguments
o The return Statement
o Scope of Variables
o Global vs. Local variables
Lesson 5: Basic OOPs Concept
o Creating class in Python
o Documented String
o Private Identifier
o Constructor
o Inheritance
o Polymorphism
Lesson 6 : Python Modules and Packages
o Framework vs Packages
o Folium Introduction
o Why are modules used?
o Creating modules
o The import Statement
o The from...import Statement
o The from...import * Statement
o Locating Modules
o The PYTHONPATH Variable
o Namespaces and Scoping
o The dir( ) Function
o The globals() and locals() Functions
o The reload() Function
o Packages in Python
Lesson 7: Advance Python
• Decorator, Iterator and Generator
• Anonymous Function
o Lambda
o Map
o Filter
o Reduce
SQL and Python
• Overview of SQLite
• Integrating Python with SQLite
• Errors and Exception Handling
o Standard exceptions
o Assertions in Python
o The assert Statement
o What is Exception?
o Handling an exception
o Syntax
o The except Clause with No Exceptions
o The except Clause with Multiple Exceptions
o The try-finally Clause
o Argument of an Exception
o Example with Tkinter Application
Section II -- Statistics and Data Science Overview
Lesson 8 : Data Science Overview
⚫ Data Science Disciplines
◼ Data Science and Business Buzzwords Why are there so many
◼ What is the difference between Analysis and Analytics
◼ An Introduction--Business Analytics, Data Analytics, and Data Science
◼ Data Science Diagram
◼ Introduction -- BI, ML and AI
◼ Careers in Data Science Fields
⚫ Data Overview
◼ What is Data
◼ Measuring Data
◼ Measurement of Central Tendency
◼ Measurements Dispersion
◼ Measurement Quartile
◼ Bi-variate Data and Co-variance
◼ Pearson Correlation Coefficient
⚫ Lesson 9 : Probability
◼ What is Probability
◼ Permutations
◼ Combinations
◼ Intersections Unions and Complements
◼ Independent and Dependent Events
◼ Conditional Probability
◼ Addition and Multiplication Rules
◼ Bayes Theorem
⚫ Lesson 10: Distributions
⚫ Introduction to Distributions
⚫ Uniform Distribution
⚫ Binomial Distribution
⚫ Poisson Distribution
⚫ Normal Distribution
⚫ Lesson 11:Statistics
◼ What is Statistics
◼ Sampling
◼ Central Limit Theorem
◼ Standard Error
◼ Hypothesis Testing
◼ Hypothesis Testing Example Exercise
◼ Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
◼ Students T Distribution
◼ Practical Example Descriptive Statistics Exercise
◼ What are Confidence Intervals
◼ Correlation Matrix
⚫ Lesson 12:Anova
◼ Introduction to ANOVA
◼ Two Way ANOVA Overview
◼ F- Distribution
⚫ Lesson 13:Chi Square Analysis
◼ Chi-Square Analysis
◼ Chi Squared Analysis - Exercise Example
Section III -- Python for Data Analysis
⚫ Lesson 14 : Python: Environment Setup and Essentials
◼ Introduction to Anaconda
◼ Installation of Anaconda Python Distribution – For Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
◼ Jupyter Notebook Installation
◼ Jupyter Notebook Introduction
⚫ Lesson 15:Data Analysis- Numpy
◼ Introduction to Numpy
◼ Numpy Array
◼ Numpy Indexing
◼ Numpy Operations
◼ Broadcasting Numpy Array
⚫ Lesson 16:Data Analysis -- Pandas
◼ Introduction to Pandas
◼ Series
◼ Data Frames
◼ Missing Data
◼ Groupby
◼ Operations
◼ Merging, Joining and concatenating
◼ Missing Data
◼ Data Input and Output
⚫ Lesson 17:Pandas Exercise
◼ Salaries Exercise
◼ Ecommerce Purchases Exercise
⚫ Lesson 18:Numpy Exercise
◼ Solving Linear System
◼ Problem Set
Section IV -- Python for Data Visualization
⚫ Lesson 19:Matplotlib
◼ Introduction
◼ Matplotlib Drawing Graph -- Histogram, Plotting, Box Plot etc
◼ Exercise
⚫ Lesson 20:Seaborn
◼ Introduction
◼ Distribution
◼ Categorical Plots
◼ Matrix Plots
◼ Regression Plots
◼ Grids
◼ Style and Colors
◼ Exercise
⚫ Lesson 21:Data Visualization with Pandas
◼ Pandas Built-in Data Visualization
◼ Pandas Data Visualization Exercise
⚫ Lesson 22:Data Visualization - Geographical Plotting
◼ Introduction to Geographical Plotting
◼ Choropleth Maps - Part 1 - USA
◼ Choropleth Maps - Part 2 - World
◼ Choropleth Exercises
⚫ Capstone Project I
◼ Calls Data Capstone Project
◼ Finance Project
⚫ Lesson 23:Time Series Analysis
◼ Pandas for Time Series
◼ Introduction to Time Series with Pandas
◼ Date time Index
◼ Time Re-sampling
◼ Time Shifts
◼ Pandas Rolling and Expanding
◼ Time Series Analysis
◼ Introduction to Time Series
◼ Time Series Basics
◼ Introduction to Statsmodel
◼ ETS Theory
◼ EWMA Theory
◼ ARIMA Theory
◼ ACF and PACF
◼ ARIMA with Statsmodel
⚫ Capstone Project II
◼ Stock Market Analysis Project
⚫ Lesson 24:Scientific computing with Python (Scipy)
◼ SciPy and its Characteristics
◼ SciPy sub-packages
◼ SciPy sub-packages –Integration
◼ SciPy sub-packages – Optimize
◼ Linear Algebra
◼ SciPy sub-packages – Statistics
◼ SciPy sub-packages – Weave
◼ SciPy sub-packages – I O
⚫ Lesson 25:Data Science with Python Web Scraping
◼ Web Scraping
◼ Common Data/Page Formats on The Web
◼ The Parser
◼ Importance of Objects
◼ Understanding the Tree
◼ Searching the Tree
◼ Navigating options
◼ Modifying the Tree
◼ Parsing Only Part of the Document
◼ Printing and Formatting
◼ Encoding
Section V -- Machine Learning
⚫ Lesson 26: Machine Learning with Python (Scikit–Learn)
◼ Introduction to Machine Learning
◼ Machine Learning Approach
◼ How Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Models Work
◼ Scikit-Learn
◼ Supervised Learning Models – Linear Regression
◼ Supervised Learning Models: Logistic Regression
◼ K Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) Model
◼ K Means Algorithm
◼ SVMs
◼ Unsupervised Learning Models: Clustering
◼ Unsupervised Learning Models: Dimensionality Reduction
◼ Pipeline
◼ Model Persistence
◼ Model Evaluation – Metric Functions
⚫ Lesson 27: Natural Language Processing with Scikit-Learn
◼ NLP Overview
◼ NLP Approach for Text Data
◼ NLP Environment Setup
◼ NLP Sentence analysis
◼ NLP Applications
◼ Major NLP Libraries
◼ Scikit-Learn Approach
◼ Scikit – Learn Approach Built – in Modules
◼ Scikit – Learn Approach Feature Extraction
◼ Bag of Words
◼ Extraction Considerations
◼ Scikit – Learn Approach Model Training
◼ Scikit – Learn Grid Search and Multiple Parameters
◼ Pipeline
⚫ Lesson 28: Python integration with Hadoop, MapReduce and Spark
◼ Need for Integrating Python with Hadoop
◼ Big Data Hadoop Architecture
◼ MapReduce
◼ Cloudera QuickStart VM Set Up
◼ Apache Spark
◼ Resilient Distributed Systems (RDD)
◼ PySpark
◼ Spark Tools
◼ PySpark Integration with Jupyter Notebook
Section VI: Project Works
Project 1-- Board Game Review Prediction -- To perform a Linear Regression Analysis by
predicting the average reviews in a board game
Project 2 -- Credit Card Fraud Detection -- To focus on Anomaly Detection by using
probability densities to detect credit card fraud
Project 3 – Stock Market Clustering – Learn how to use the K-means clustering algorithm to find
related companies by finding correlations among stock market movements over a given time span
Project 4 – Getting Started with Natural Language Processing in Python – This project will focus
on Natural Language Processing (NLP) methodology, such as tokenizing words and sentences, part of
speech identification and tagging, and phrase chunking.
