Data Analysis with Python

Instructor: Joseph Santarcangelo

Intermediate Level • Approx. 15 hours • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • ✓Construct Python programs to clean and prepare data for analysis by addressing missing values, formatting inconsistencies, normalization, and binning
  • ✓Analyze real-world datasets through exploratory data analysis (EDA) using libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and SciPy to uncover patterns and insights
  • ✓Apply data operation techniques using dataframes to organize, summarize, and interpret data distributions, correlation analysis, and data pipelines
  • ✓Develop and evaluate regression models using Scikit-learn, and use these models to generate predictions and support data-driven decision-making

Skills You'll Gain

Data Import/Export
Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Pipelines
Supervised Learning
Regression Analysis
NumPy
Data-Driven Decision-Making
Pandas (Python Package)
Data Cleansing
Matplotlib
Data analysis
Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library)
Data Manipulation
Feature Engineering
Predictive Modeling
Statistical Modeling
Data Wrangling
Descriptive Statistics

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
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There are 6 modules in this course

In this module, you will learn how to understand data and learn about how to use the libraries in Python to help you import data from multiple sources. You will then learn how to perform some basic tasks to start exploring and analyzing the imported data set.

In this module, you will learn how to perform some fundamental data wrangling tasks that, together, form the pre-processing phase of data analysis. These tasks include handling missing values in data, formatting data to standardize it and make it consistent, normalizing data, grouping data values into bins, and converting categorical variables into numerical quantitative variables.

In this module, you will learn what is meant by exploratory data analysis, and you will learn how to perform computations on the data to calculate basic descriptive statistical information, such as mean, median, mode, and quartile values, and use that information to better understand the distribution of the data. You will learn about putting your data into groups to help you visualize the data better, you will learn how to use the Pearson correlation method to compare two continuous numerical variables, and you will learn how to use the Chi-square test to find the association between two categorical variables and how to interpret them.

In this module, you will learn how to define the explanatory variable and the response variable and understand the differences between the simple linear regression and multiple linear regression models. You will learn how to evaluate a model using visualization and learn about polynomial regression and pipelines. You will also learn how to interpret and use the R-squared and the mean square error measures to perform in-sample evaluations to numerically evaluate our model. And lastly, you will learn about prediction and decision making when determining if our model is correct.

In this module, you will learn about the importance of model evaluation and discuss different data model refinement techniques. You will learn about model selection and how to identify overfitting and underfitting in a predictive model. You will also learn about using Ridge Regression to regularize and reduce standard errors to prevent overfitting a regression model and how to use the Grid Search method to tune the hyperparameters of an estimator.

Congratulations! You have now completed all the modules for this course. In this last module, you will complete the final assignment that will be graded by your peers. In this final assignment, you will assume the role of a Data Analyst working at a real estate investment trust organization who wants to start investing in residential real estate. You will be given a dataset containing detailed information about house prices in the region based on a number of property features, and it will be your job to analyze and predict the market price of houses given that information.