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Pythonfor

Data Science

Hello!I am Jeroen JanssensI am here because I love to teach

You can find me at @jeroenhjanssens

Outline

○ Who am I?○ What is data science?○ What makes Python so great?○ Python ecosystem○ Jupyter Notebook○ Resources

What isData Science?

“Data science is an interdisciplinary

field about scientific methods, processes, and systems to extract

insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured.

What makesPython

so great?

Overview

○ Simple and dynamic typing○ Open source, free, actively developed○ Glue (C, FORTRAN, cli, R)○ Broad language (web development, game

development, image processing)○ Easy to create command-line tools○ Great package ecosystem (PyPi, scikits)○ Great community

By Jake VanderPlas

By Jake VanderPlas

https://python-graph-gallery.com/

Jupyter Notebook

○ Interactive○ Browser-based environment○ Combine code with text and images○ Reproducible analysis○ Can be exported to scripts

Resources

Conclusion

○ Python

Thanks!Any questions?You can find me at@jeroenhjanssens & [email protected]