Meet Your Course Guide
by Sebastian Raschka, Robert Layton, Martin Czygan, Phuong Vo.T.H, Fabrizio Romano,
Python: Real-World Data Science
- Data Science with Python
- Table of Contents
- Data Science with Python
- Meet Your Course Guide
- What's so cool about Data Science?
- Course Structure
- Course Journey
- The Course Roadmap and Timeline
- 1. Course Module 1: Python Fundamentals
- 1. Introduction and First Steps – Take a Deep Breath
- A proper introduction
- Enter the Python
- About Python
- What are the drawbacks?
- Who is using Python today?
- Setting up the environment
- What you need for this course
- How you can run a Python program
- How is Python code organized
- Python's execution model
- Guidelines on how to write good code
- The Python culture
- A note on the IDEs
- 2. Object-oriented Design
- 3. Objects in Python
- 4. When Objects Are Alike
- 5. Expecting the Unexpected
- 6. When to Use Object-oriented Programming
- 7. Python Data Structures
- 8. Python Object-oriented Shortcuts
- 9. Strings and Serialization
- 10. The Iterator Pattern
- 11. Python Design Patterns I
- 12. Python Design Patterns II
- 13. Testing Object-oriented Programs
- 14. Concurrency
- 1. Introduction and First Steps – Take a Deep Breath
- 2. Course Module 2: Data Analysis
- 1. Introducing Data Analysis and Libraries
- 2. NumPy Arrays and Vectorized Computation
- 3. Data Analysis with pandas
- 4. Data Visualization
- 5. Time Series
- 6. Interacting with Databases
- 7. Data Analysis Application Examples
- 3. Course Module 3: Data Mining
- 1. Getting Started with Data Mining
- 2. Classifying with scikit-learn Estimators
- 3. Predicting Sports Winners with Decision Trees
- 4. Recommending Movies Using Affinity Analysis
- 5. Extracting Features with Transformers
- 6. Social Media Insight Using Naive Bayes
- 7. Discovering Accounts to Follow Using Graph Mining
- 8. Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks
- 9. Authorship Attribution
- 10. Clustering News Articles
- 11. Classifying Objects in Images Using Deep Learning
- 12. Working with Big Data
- 13. Next Steps…
- Chapter 1 – Getting Started with Data Mining
- Chapter 2 – Classifying with scikit-learn Estimators
- Chapter 3: Predicting Sports Winners with Decision Trees
- Chapter 4 – Recommending Movies Using Affinity Analysis
- Chapter 5 – Extracting Features with Transformers
- Chapter 6 – Social Media Insight Using Naive Bayes
- Chapter 7 – Discovering Accounts to Follow Using Graph Mining
- Chapter 8 – Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks
- Chapter 9 – Authorship Attribution
- Chapter 10 – Clustering News Articles
- Chapter 11 – Classifying Objects in Images Using Deep Learning
- Chapter 12 – Working with Big Data
- More resources
- 4. Course Module 4: Machine Learning
- 1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data
- How to transform data into knowledge
- The three different types of machine learning
- An introduction to the basic terminology and notations
- A roadmap for building machine learning systems
- Using Python for machine learning
- 2. Training Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification
- 3. A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using scikit-learn
- 4. Building Good Training Sets – Data Preprocessing
- 5. Compressing Data via Dimensionality Reduction
- 6. Learning Best Practices for Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning
- 7. Combining Different Models for Ensemble Learning
- 8. Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis
- Introducing a simple linear regression model
- Exploring the Housing Dataset
- Implementing an ordinary least squares linear regression model
- Fitting a robust regression model using RANSAC
- Evaluating the performance of linear regression models
- Using regularized methods for regression
- Turning a linear regression model into a curve – polynomial regression
- A. Reflect and Test Yourself! Answers
- Module 2: Data Analysis
- Module 3: Data Mining
- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Data Mining
- Chapter 2: Classifying with scikit-learn Estimators
- Chapter 3: Predicting Sports Winners with Decision Trees
- Chapter 4: Recommending Movies Using Affinity Analysis
- Chapter 5: Extracting Features with Transformers
- Chapter 6: Social Media Insight Using Naive Bayes
- Chapter 7: Discovering Accounts to Follow Using Graph Mining
- Chapter 8: Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks
- Chapter 9: Authorship Attribution
- Chapter 10: Clustering News Articles
- Chapter 11: Classifying Objects in Images Using Deep Learning
- Chapter 12: Working with Big Data
- Module 4: Machine Learning
- Chapter 1: Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data
- Chapter 2: Training Machine Learning
- Chapter 3: A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using scikit-learn
- Chapter 4: Building Good Training Sets – Data Preprocessing
- Chapter 5: Compressing Data via Dimensionality Reduction
- Chapter 6: Learning Best Practices for Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning
- Chapter 7: Combining Different Models for Ensemble Learning
- Chapter 8: Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis
- B. Bibliography
- 1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data
- Index
Hello and welcome to this Data Science with Python course. You now have a clear pathway from learning Python core features right through to getting acquainted with the concepts and techniques of the data science field—all using Python!
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This course has been planned and created for you by me Ankita Thakur – I am your Course Guide, and I am here to help you have a great journey along the pathways of learning that I have planned for you. I've developed and created this course for you and you'll be seeing me through the whole journey, offering you my thoughts and ideas behind what you're going to learn next and why I recommend each step. I'll provide tests and quizzes to help you reflect on your learning, and code challenges that will be pitched just right for you through the course. If you have any questions along the way, you can reach out to me over e-mail or telephone and I'll make sure you get everything from the course that we've planned – for you to start your career in the field of data science. Details of how to contact me are included on the first page of this course. |
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