Course Description
Short Course | 12 hours | 1.2 CEUs | $1,320
Data Science Projects with Python will help you get comfortable with using the Python environment for data science. This course will start you on your journey to mastering topics within machine learning. These skills will help you deliver the kind of state-of-the-art predictive models that are being used to deliver value to businesses across industries.
Data Science Projects with Python is designed to give you practical guidance on industry-standard data analysis and machine learning tools in Python, with the help of realistic data. The course will help you understand how you can use pandas and Matplotlib to critically examine a dataset with summary statistics and graphs, and extract the insights you seek to derive. You will continue to build on your knowledge as you learn how to prepare data and feed it to machine learning algorithms, such as regularized logistic regression and random forest, using the scikit-learn package. You’ll discover how to tune the algorithms to provide the best predictions on new and, unseen data. As you delve into later chapters, you’ll be able to understand the working and output of these algorithms and gain insight into not only the predictive capabilities of the models but also their reasons for making these predictions.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Data Exploration and Cleaning
- Python and the Anaconda Package Management System
- Different Types of Data Science Problems
- Loading the Case Study Data with Jupyter and pandas
- Data Quality Assurance and Exploration
- Exploring the Financial History Features in the Dataset
- Activity 1: Exploring Remaining Financial Features in the Dataset
Lesson 2: Introduction to Scikit-Learn and Model Evaluation
- Introduction
- Model Performance Metrics for Binary Classification
- Activity 2: Performing Logistic Regression with a New Feature and Creating a Precision-Recall Curve
Lesson 3: Details of Logistic Regression and Feature Exploration
- Introduction
- Examining the Relationships between Features and the Response
- Univariate Feature Selection: What It Does and Doesn't Do
- Building Cloud-Native Applications
- Activity 3: Fitting a Logistic Regression Model and Directly Using the Coefficients
Lesson 4: The Bias-Variance Trade-off
- Introduction
- Estimating the Coefficients and Intercepts of Logistic Regression
- Cross Validation: Choosing the Regularization Parameter and Other Hyperparameters
- Activity 4: Cross-Validation and Feature Engineering with the Case Study Data
Lesson 5: Decision Trees and Random Forests
- Introduction
- Decision trees
- Random Forests: Ensembles of Decision Trees
- Activity 5: Cross-Validation Grid Search with Random Forest
Lesson 6: Imputation of Missing Data, Financial Analysis, and Delivery to Client
- Introduction
- Review of Modeling Results
- Dealing with Missing Data: Imputation Strategies
- Activity 6: Deriving Financial Insights
- Final Thoughts on Delivering the Predictive Model to the Client
Learner Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will have the skills you need to confidently use various machine learning algorithms to perform detailed data analysis and extract meaningful insights from data.Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisites for this course.
Duration
12 hours | 2 Days or 4 NightsApplies Towards the Following Certificates
- Data Science Certificate : Data Science
*Academic Unit eligibility to be determined by college/university in which you are enrolled in a degree seeking program.