Short Term Course on Data Analytics with Python

Short Term Course on
Data Analytics with Python

9-13 November 2019

With the advent of big data over the last decade and storage becoming cheaper, organizations are collecting a lot more data than before, making it imperative to derive insights from data and unlock the business value hidden in the data. Python is one of the most popular programming languages for data analysis. This course is designed for students who are familiar with a high level programming language like C, C++ or Java and would like to use Python for data analysis. The course provides a fast introduction to Python and then delves into Python data analysis libraries - numpy, pandas, matplotlib and scikit-learn - and shows how to apply these libraries to practical data analytics problems

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction to Python

Python interpreter
Variables/Data Types
Loops/Conditionals
Functions
Data Structures - Lists and Maps

Day 2: Intermediate/Advanced Python

Decorators
Object Oriented Programming
Functional Programming
HTTP Protocol/Requests

Day 3: Numpy/Pandas

ndarray
Vectorization
Linear Algebra - Matrix operations
Random number generation and sampling
Series, DataFrame
Summary Statistics

Day 4: Pandas/Matplotlib

Loading data - csv, sql
Cleansing and Shaping data
Grouping, filtering and joining
Matplotlib - Figures and Subplots
Matplotlib - Colors, Markers, Legends, Ticks, Lables
Matplotlib - Area, Pie, Bar, Line, Density, Scatter plots

Day 5: Scikit-Learn

Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning
Model fitting - cost function
Classification
Linear and Logistic Regression
k-means clustering

Registration

Registration Fees:

For Students: Rs. 11,800 (10,000 + 18% GST)

For Industrial Participants and others: Rs. 23,600 (20,000 + 18% GST)

* Registration Fees includes Registration Kit, tea/snacks and course dinner.

** Accommodation and fooding charges are not included in Registration fees.

The payments should be made through SBI Collect. Here are the details to be filled:

Course Code	2019/30
Course Title	FTP IIT Kanpur
Course Duration	9-13 November 2019
Participants Category Course Fees + 18% GST *IITK Students payonly course fees	IITK Students NON IITK Students Industry Participant Others

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Meet Our Coordinator & Instructor

Mr. Avneesh Jain

Instructor

Avneesh is founder of CodeKraft, a coding school in Bangalore that aims to bridge the gap between industry and academia. He is passionate about focusing on the right tools, frameworks and technologies that makes software developers more effective in the their jobs. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry and has worked for Amazon, Yahoo, Shutterfly, Epiphany and JD Edwards. Avneesh hold a Bachelors degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Masters degree from Rutgers University, NJ.

Prof. Jayant K Singh

Coordinator

Professor and Mr. and Mrs. Gian Singh Bindra Chair
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 1997.
M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 2002.
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 2004.
Research Scientist, General Motors India Science Laboratory, 2004-2005.