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Contents:

Week 0

• Introduction and guidance
  • Moving around the course
• What is a badged course?
  • What is a badge?
• How to get a badge

Week 1

• Introduction
• 1 Install the software
  • Online CoCalc service
  • Install Anaconda package
  • Notebooks
  • Activity 1 What would you ask?
  • Exercise 1 Variables and assignments
  • Exercise 2 Expressions
  • Exercise 3 Functions
  • Exercise 4 Comments
  • Activity 2
• 2 This week’s quiz
• 3 Summary

Week 2

• 1 Enter the pandas
  • Exercise 5 pandas
  • Exercise 6 selecting a column
  • Exercise 7 calculations on a column
  • Exercise 8 sorting on a column
• 2 Writing up the analysis
  • 2.1 Practice project
  • 2.2 Sharing your project notebook
• 3 This week’s quiz
• 4 Summary
  • Futher reading
  • Programming and data analysis concepts
  • Reserved words
  • Functions and methods

Week 3

• Introduction
• 1 Weather data
  • 1.1 What is a CSV file?
  • 1.2 Dataframes and the ‘dot’ notation
  • A multi-coloured image of many different sized circles. They could be described as bubbles
  • 1.3 Getting and displaying dataframe rows
  • An image of a data algorithm
  • 1.4 Getting and displaying dataframe columns
  • An perspective image of the isle between many data storage towers. The floor and the storage units are lit up.
  • 1.5 Comparison operators
  • 1.6 Bitwise operators
• 2 This week’s quiz
• 3 Summary

Week 4

• 1 Loading the weather data
  • Important notice for learners outside of the EU
  • Changing the data type of the ‘WindDirDegrees’ column
  • Changing the data type of the ‘GMT’ column
  • Exercise 4 Display rows from dataframe
• 2 Every picture tells a story
  • Exercise 5 Every picture tells a story
  • Exercise 6 Changing a dataframe’s index
• 3 This week’s quiz
• 4 Summary
• 4.1 Week 4 glossary
  • Programming and data analysis concepts
  • Functions and methods

Week 5

• Introduction
• 1 Life expectancy project
  • Links:
  • Exercise 1 Creating the data
  • Exercise 2 Defining functions
  • Exercise 3 What if…?
  • Exercise 4 Applying functions
• 2 This week’s quiz
• 3 Summary

Week 6

• 1 Joining left, right and centre
  • Exercise 5 Joining left, right and centre
  • Exercise 6 Constants
  • Exercise 7 Getting real
  • Exercise 8 Cleaning up
  • Exercise 9 Joining and transforming
• 2 Correlation
  • Exercise 10 Correlation
  • Exercise 11 Scatterplots
  • Activity 1
• 3 This week’s quiz
• 4 Summary
  • 4.1 Weeks 5 and 6 glossary

Week 7

• Introduction
• 1 I spy with my little eye
  • 1.1 Ways of grouping data
  • 1.2 Data that describes the world of trade
  • 1.3 Exploring the world of export data
  • 1.4 Getting data from the Comtrade API
  • 1.5 Practice getting data
• 2 This week’s quiz
• 3 Summary

Week 8

• 1 The split-apply-combine pattern
  • 1.1 Splitting a dataset by grouping
  • 1.2 Looking at apply and combine operations
  • 1.3 Summary operations
  • 1.4 Filtering groups
• 2 Pivot tables
  • Exercise 5 Interactive pivot table
  • Working with pandas pivot tables
  • Exercise 6 pivot tables with pandas
  • Activity 1 Extend the project
  • Activity 2 Create a project (optional)
• 3 This week’s quiz
• 4 Summary
  • 4.1 Week 7 and 8 glossary
  • 4.2 What next?
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