frfeng / python-workshop

Workshop: Introduction to data analysis in Python

Topics

• Python basics
• Data analysis with pandas
• Data visualization with matplotlib
• Machine learning with scikit-learn

Tasks before attending the workshop

Task 1. Software installation

First, you need to install Python and Jupyter Notebook, so that you can follow along in this hands-on workshop (and also for future learning).

Software installation instructions

Task 2. Downloading the Jupyter notebooks and data sets for the workshop

If you know your way around Git and GitHub, you can clone this repository to your local computer.

$ git clone https://github.com/frfeng/python-workshop.git

Otherwise, follow the instructions below.

1. Click the Code ▼ dropdown button, then click Download ZIP.

   

2. This would download everything in this repository as a ZIP file named python-workshop-master.zip to your local computer.

3. Unzip the downloaded file, and optionally, move the extracted folder to a desired place on your computer.

Task 3. Verify that you can open the notebooks in Jupyter Notebook

1. Launch Jupyter Notebook (see the last part of the software installation instructions)

   • If you are comfortable with command-line interface, you can first cd into the workshop folder, then launch Jupyter by typing in jupyter notebook. This would allow you skip the next step.

2. In the Jupyter Notebook Dashboard, navigate into the downloaded folder python-workshop-master.

3. Click any of the notebook files (i.e., the ones with the name extension .ipynb) to open it. If it successfully opens, congrats, you are all set!

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If you run into any issues, please contact Fred Feng at [e-mail]