420047 Data Processing Using Python

3cp; online, weekly
Requisite(s): 260776 Foundation of Business Analytics AND 260777 Data Processing Using SAS AND 570100 Data Ethics and Regulation AND 12 credit points of completed study in spk(s): CBK91894 12cp Foundation Option (Business Analytics)
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Fields of practice: Programming Languages (Business Analytics program)

Postgraduate

Description

The subject focuses on the basics of python programming with practical application to data processing and analysis. Students learn basic programming concepts, simple visualisation, how to write custom programs using iPython notebooks and perform exploratory data analysis. Additionally, this subject introduces the usage of the Numpy package to pre-process data, and machine learning techniques are introduced to facilitate further exploration of the Python language capabilities.

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