INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON PROGRAMMING (CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION)

This is an introduction to Python programming. The focus will be on the use of Python techniques such as interactions with data sources and libraries such as Pandas, NumPy for data munging and Bokeh for visualisation. These fundamentals are the pre-requisites to building data analytics models with more advanced Python libraries. The programme will also cover the use of Python libraries and maintenance of libraries conflicts with Anaconda environments and Python virtualenv. This is an important topic as the rapid innovation of the Python data science ecosystem often requires the use of multiple libraries with incompatible versions, and the use of virtualenv or Anaconda environments helps maintain developer sanity.