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Python Data Science & Machine Learning High School (Live Online)

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Overview

In this live online summer program for high school students, you'll learn Python for data science and machine learning.

Syllabus

Day 1-3

Introduction to Programming

  • History of Python
  • Understanding Hardware
  • Anaconda Distribution
  • Jupyter Notebook Fundamentals
  • Writing First Program (“Hello World”)

Terminal Commands

  • Navigate & Manipulate Directory Strcutres
  • Edit Files
  • Basic Scripting

Python Fundamentals

  • Data Types
  • Operators
  • Expression
  • Indexing & Slicing
  • Strings
  • Conditionals
  • Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Nested Loops
  • Sets & Dictionaries

Data Science Fundamentals

  • Import Data
  • Functions
  • Basic Data Tool

Advanced Python Fundementals

  • Lists
  • Mutating Operations
  • Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries
  • Loops
  • Control Flow
  • List Comprehension
  • Error Handeling

Day 4-5

Processing

  • String Methods
  • Read & Write to Text Files
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Mini Project

Object Oriented Programming

  • Classes
  • Constructors
  • Object Methods
  • Writing Modules
  • Advanced Scripting
  • Terminal & Socket Connection

Day 6-8

Numerical Python

  • Arrays
  • Universal Functions
  • Concatenating, Indexing, Slicing
  • Arithmetic & Boolean Operations

Day 9-10

Python Data Analysis: Pandas 1

  • Data Series
  • Data Frames
  • Import CSV & Excel Files
  • Organize Data Frames
  • Data Manipulation
  • Descriptive Statistics

Advanced Python

  • File Input
  • User Input
  • List Comprehension
  • Packages

Data Analysis

  • Cleaning Data
  • Filtering Data
  • Advanced Grouping
  • Pivot Tables

Data Visualization

  • Plotting with Matplotlib
  • Scatter Plots
  • Histograms & Bar Plots
  • Custom Visualizations

Day 11-15

Basic Regression Analysis

  • Linear Regression
  • Mean squared error
  • Training set vs Test set
  • Cross validation

Advanced Regression Analysis

  • Multi-linear regression
  • Feature engineering
  • Overfitting

Classification

Logistic Regression

  • Regression vs Classification
  • Logistic Regression
  • Sigmoid function

K-nearest Neighbors

  • K-nearest neighbors
  • Model-based vs memory-based
  • Parametric vs non-parametric
  • Evaluating performance

Final Project

Details

  • Curate Data
  • Import, Clean, and Merge Data
  • Analyze Data
  • Visualize Data
  • Present Results

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