SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Workshop on Python for Data Science and Machine Learning
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Date: 06/10/2018
Department of CSE, under the auspices of Computer Society of India, conducted a one day hands-on workshop on “Python for data science and machine learning” for faculty members and students. The workshop was conducted by Mr.Mahadeva Prabhu, Technical Trainer, BeTaught Learning Solutions.
Python is a very powerful programming language used for many different applications. Over time, the huge community around this open source language has created quite a few tools to efficiently work with Python especially for data science projects. Live demo on Python Environment (Jupyter Notebook) and libraries such as Pandas and Hands-on coding exercises through guided materials (suitable for all beginners), with a focus on data visualisation were the main agenda of the workshop. The Prerequisites of the workshop were basic understanding of data and programming and programming experience using Python.
The workshop included the following topics:
● Basics of Python: variables, data types, functions
● Basics of Python: loops and if statements
● Analytics-specific Python libraries: NumPy, pandas
● Creating your first simple prediction
● Data Exploration and visualization & Basic Statistical Analysis
● Making Predictions using Regression and classification algorithms
● Clustering
