Coding for Data - 2020 edition

Coding for data

What is data science?
Why Data Science?
Tools and techniques
- Computational Tools
- Statistical Techniques
Text is data
Surviving the computer
Our tools
Using Jupyter notebooks
More on the Jupyter notebook

On code

Ode to code
A sampling problem
A simpler problem
Introduction to variables
Names and variables
Expressions
Introduction to functions
Call expressions
A first pass at the simple problem

Data types

Types of things
Numbers
Strings
Strings, variables and expressions
String methods
Comparisons
Lists

Arrays

Arrays
Ranges
More on Arrays
Selecting values from an array
Making and filling arrays.
Function arguments
Boolean arrays
Leaping ahead

Iteration

Iteration
Indentation, indentation, indentation
Reply to the Supreme Court
Inference

Data frames

Indexing with Boolean arrays
Data frames
Introduction to data frames
Data frames, Series and arrays
Missing values
Pandas plotting methods

Population and permutation

Populations and permutations
Population and permutation
Brexit and ages
The idea of permutation
Permutation and the t-test

More building blocks

More building blocks
Introducing Functions
On None
Functions
Conditional Statements
Functions as values

Pandas, indices and labels

Indexing in Pandas
Noble politics and comparing counts
Handling Pandas safely
Storing and loading text
Numbers and strings

The mean and straight lines

The mean
The meaning of the mean
Where and argmin
The mean and slopes
Optimization
Where in 2D
Finding lines
Using minimize
Inference on slopes
Combining boolean arrays
Standard scores
Correlation

Classification

Classification
Nearest neighbors
Training and testing
Rows of tables
Implementing the classifier
Accuracy of the classifier
Multiple regression
Simple and multiple regression

Useful pandas

Cross-tabulation
The power of groupby
Merging

More on regression

Logistic regression

Confidence

On confidence
The Bootstrap
A problem for the education minister
The Central Limit Theorem
Random choice
The law of large numbers
Laws of probability
First Bayes
Bayes theorem
Bayes and bars
Confident treatment
Bayes, confidence

The end of the beginning

The end of the beginning

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