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Lesson1 Introduction To The Data Science Process and The Value of Learning Data Science

The document provides an overview of a data science program taught with Python. It discusses the value of learning data science, the basic data science process, and tools used including Python, Jupyter notebooks, and machine learning methods. It defines key data science terms, compares data analytics, data science, and machine learning, and outlines career opportunities in data science fields like data scientist, data analyst, and data engineer.

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Lesson1 Introduction To The Data Science Process and The Value of Learning Data Science

The document provides an overview of a data science program taught with Python. It discusses the value of learning data science, the basic data science process, and tools used including Python, Jupyter notebooks, and machine learning methods. It defines key data science terms, compares data analytics, data science, and machine learning, and outlines career opportunities in data science fields like data scientist, data analyst, and data engineer.

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ZETECH UNIVERSITY

DATA SCIENCE PROGRAMMIG WITH PYTHON

Lesson 1: Introduction to the data science process and the value of learning data science

This is a course for passionately curious that want to work with Data to:
1. Help business leverage data for innovation and success
2. Innovate and predict future trends in business and other industries
3. Learn how to analyze data and provide data- driven insight to make
decisions

Learning Objectives

● Basic process of data science


● Python and Jupyter notebooks
● An applied understanding of how to manipulate and analyze uncrated datasets
● Basic statistical analysis and machine learning methods
● How to effectively visualize results

Machine requirements specification for Data Science


o Internet access
o Laptop with following specs
 (Core i 5 upwards, 8 GB RAM, 256 SSD, or 512 HDD & up
wards of storage)

Definition of data science.


 Data science is - the field of applying advanced analytics techniques and
scientific principles to extract valuable information from data for business
decision-making, strategic planning and other uses.

o Data science scope - data science will deal with everything, from
analyzing complex data, creating new analytics algorithms and tools for
data processing and purification, and even building powerful, useful
visualizations.

Some examples of data science are:

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 Customer Prediction - System can be trained based on customer
behavior patterns to predict the likelihood of a customer buying a product
 Service Planning - Restaurants can predict how many customers will
visit on the weekend and plan their food inventory to handle the demand
Data Terminologies:
Big data - refers to any large and complex collection of data.
Data analytics - is the process of extracting meaningful information from data.
Data science - is a multidisciplinary field that aims to produce broader insights.i.e

 Scientific methods
 Maths and statistics
 Programming
 Advanced analytics
 ML and AI
 Deep learning

Data science terms: Key differences between these fields

Data Analytics Data Science Machine Learning

Extract relevant Conduct operations over Develop software that


Goal information from a various data sources to prove learns by itself by
usually rather small or disprove a certain extracting meaning from
dataset hypothesis data

Involves using Involves using ML tools to Involves using ML


Tools analytics applications work with both structured algorithms and analytical
on structured data and unstructured data models

Includes predictive Involves data acquisition, data Includes supervised,


Scope modeling, risk cleaning, data investigation, unsupervised, semi-
analytics, and other etc. supervised learning

Output Trend analysis Report based on key data ML model

Key differences between these fields

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Data analytics

you will need to know a programming language, usually R or Python, since


these languages have rich libraries that will help you to work with data.
you will need Structured Query Language (SQL) to view, manage and access
information you’re working with.
Finally, data analysts often have to present the results of their findings to clients
or other stakeholders.
So you will need to learn how to do data visualization, for example, with the
help of Google Charts, Tableau, Grafana. You will also need confidence and good
presentation skills.
Data science
A data scientist - is someone who often has to formulate and prove or refute hypotheses.
o That is why if you choose this profession, it’s important to have a solid
academic background and be able to approach problems systematically and
methodically.
Data science teams often publish papers that report about the results of their
experiments and attract public attention to the problems they are working on.
Speaking more practically,
o you need to know math and statistics as well as data mining, cleaning, and
processing techniques. Knowledge of programming and machine learning
techniques is definitely useful since you often have to build ML models to
derive meaning from data.
Machine learning

Applied mathematics is quite an important skill in the arsenal of a machine


learning engineer.
o As soon as you start working on complex projects, you will discover that out-of-
the-box models don’t work as well as you would like them to, and you will have to
search for solutions. If you have good knowledge of math theory and
statistics, you will be much more efficient at your job.
Machine learning specialist is also an engineer, so programming is essential.
Python is the most common choice for machine learning, however, there are other
languages that are gaining popularity in this field such as Julia.

Data science tools & technologies

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 This includes programming languages like R, Python, Julia, which can be
used to create new algorithms, ML models, AI processes for big data platforms like
Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop.
 Data processing and purification tools -such as
o Winpure, Data Ladder.
 Data visualization tools -such as
o Microsoft Power Platform, Google Data Studio, Tableau to
visualization frameworks like
 matplotlib and ploty can also be considered as data science
tools.
 As data science covers everything related to data, any tool or technology that
is used in Big Data and Data Analytics can somehow be utilized in the Data
Science process.

Why use python in Data science


 Python as a programming language has become very popular in recent times. It
has been used in data science, IoT, AI, and other technologies, which has added
to its popularity.
 Python is used as a programming language for data science because it contains
costly tools from a mathematical or statistical perspective.

There are several other reasons why Python is one of the most used
programming languages for data science, including:

a. Speed - Python is relatively faster than other programming languages


b. Availability - There are a significant number of packages available that other
users have developed, which can be reused
c. Design goal - The syntax roles in Python are intuitive and easy to understand,
thereby helping in building applications with a readable codebase

Career opportunity for Data science

1. Data scientist – A generalist who knows a bit of everything.


 Deals with all aspects of a project in big companies. Their skill set
allow them to overlook a project and guide them from start to
finish.
2. Data analyst - Prepare reports that effectively shows the trends and insights
gathered from their analysis.
 Data analyst responsible for different tasks such as Visualizing,
transforming and manipulating the data. Web analytics tracking
and A/B testing analysis.

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3. Data Engineer - Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data
. pipelines.
 They need to test the ecosystem for the businesses and prepare for
data scientist to run their algorithms.
4. Data Storyteller - find the narrative that best describes

Frequently Asked Questions

1. WHAT JOBS WILL THIS PROGRAM PREPARE ME FOR?


 As a graduate of this program, you will be proficient in
the programming skills used in many data analysis and data science
roles. Including Python, R, SQL, Terminal, and Git.

2. HOW DO I KNOW IF THIS PROGRAM IS RIGHT FOR ME?


 If you are interested in taking the first step into the field of Data Science,
this course is for you. This course will quickly teach you the
foundational data programming tools (Python, SQL, Git)
 Data Science with Python, you’ll also learn specialized data
libraries for Python including Pandas and Numpy, and use
o Git and the Terminal - to share your work and learn about
version control
3. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PYTHON TRACK AND
THE R TRACK?
 Python and R Both - tracks cover the same fundamental concepts, use
data sets but use a different programming language.
o The SQL, command line, and Git - curriculum is the same in
both tracks
Target groups: suitable for Learning data science.

 Statisticians  IT Professionals  ICT Professionals  data managers  Software


Developers and Architects,  Business Intelligence Professionals  Project
Managers,  Engineers , Bio data specialist ,Aspiring Data Scientists,  University
students looking to begin a career in Big Data Analytics etc…

Anaconda IDE for Python Data science.

 Anaconda is a distribution of Python and R programming languages for


scientific computing (data science, machine learning, large scale data processing,
predictive modelling) its Aims to simplify package management and
deployment.

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 How to Install Anaconda! Video. Link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8wK5loXkXg

Installing Anaconda on Windows Tutorial


https://www.datacamp.com/tutorial/installing-anaconda-windows

1. What is Data Science? | Introduction to Data Science | Data Science for


Beginners | Simplilearn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxryzSO1Fjs
2. What REALLY is Data Science? Told by a Data Scientist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC-c7E5PK0Y

END of INTRODUCTION PART!!!!!

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