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Python Statistics Essential Training (2018)

Python Statistics Essential Training (2018)

2h 58mIntermediate2018-07-17

Authors

Michele Vallisneri

Michele Vallisneri

Theoretical Astrophysicist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Course details

With this course, gain insight into key statistical concepts and build practical analytics skills using Python and powerful third-party libraries. Instructor Michele Vallisneri covers several major skills: cleaning, visualizing, and describing data, statistical inference, and statistical modeling. All concepts are introduced by analyzing intriguing real-world datasets and discussed from a machine-learning perspective—which assumes that powerful computation can replace complex mathematics.

Learning objectives
Installing and setting up Python
Importing and cleaning data
Visualizing data
Describing distributions and categorical variables
Using basic statistical inference and modeling techniques
Bayesian inference

Skills covered

PythonEssential TrainingProgramming LanguagesOpen SourceSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

  • 01 - Welcome
  • 02 - What you need to know
  • 03 - Using the exercise files

1. Installation and Setup

  • 04 - Install Anaconda Python on OS X
  • 05 - Install Anaconda Python on Windows
  • 06 - Working with Jupyter Notebook
  • 07 - Using Python in the cloud

2. Importing and Cleaning Data

  • 08 - The structure of data
  • 09 - Create tidy data tables
  • 10 - Introducing pandas
  • 11 - Data cleaning
  • 12 - ✓ Challenge - Personal email analytics
  • 13 - ✓ Solution - Personal email analytics

3. Visualizing and Describing Data

  • 14 - The power of visualization
  • 15 - Describe distributions
  • 16 - Plot distributions
  • 17 - Plots of two quantitative variables
  • 18 - More quantitative variables
  • 19 - Describe categorical variables
  • 20 - Plot categorical variables
  • 21 - Personal email analytics
  • 22 - ✓ Challenge - More email analytics
  • 23 - ✓ Solution - More email analytics

4. Introduction to Statistical Inference

  • 24 - Statistical inference
  • 25 - Confidence intervals
  • 26 - Bootstrapping
  • 27 - Hypothesis testing
  • 28 - p values and confidence intervals
  • 29 - ✓ Challenge - Bootstrapping grades
  • 30 - ✓ Solution - Bootstrapping grades

5. Introduction to Statistical Modeling

  • 31 - Statistical modeling
  • 32 - Fitting models to data
  • 33 - Goodness of fit
  • 34 - Cross validation
  • 35 - Logistic regression
  • 36 - Bayesian inference
  • 37 - ✓ Challenge - Explaining baby weight at birth
  • 38 - ✓ Solution - Explaining baby weight at birth

Conclusion

  • 39 - Next steps

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