Lesson 15: Intro to Data Science and Python
March 2, 2020
Review:
- Quiz 08
- Mountain West Basketball data
- Stock Market Simulation Project
Presentation:
- Data Science
- Combination of statistics + programming with big data
- Hot like computer software development in the 1990’s
- Salaries are high
- Python
- Programmers and companies are moving to Python
- Google uses Python extensively
- Python is gaining market share rapidly
- Complete first 2 chapters in Intro to Data Science with Python
- Chapter 1: Getting Started in Python
- Chapter 2: Loading Data in Pandas
Assignment:
- Work on Stock Market Simulation Project
- Intro to Data Science with Python due in 1 week (Mon, Mar 9)