Courses & Workshops I've Taught
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Scraping Data From the Web
Almost any information you want is available on the Internet. Web scraping is a key tool for data mining that information allowing for web page exploration and collection for a variety of reporting. The tools and techniques used in this course allow for data to be collected that would otherwise not be easily accessible without robotic assistance.
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Practice Python While Loops
While you are learning about loops, take a moment to practice using while loops.
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Practice Creating and Indexing Lists
Let's practice creating lists and printing their contents.
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Practice Comparisons in Python
A quick review of data types, making comparisons, and using if and elif statements in Python.
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Pipenv: The Python Package Manager
Pipenv is a production-ready tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds to the Python world. It harnesses Pipfile, pip, and virtualenv into one single command.
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Android Lists and Adapters
A collection of data is often represented in an app in some sort of list. In this course we will learn about the popular Android component called RecyclerView to display and interact with a list of items. We will see how to use some default components as well as building custom lists with our own layouts and adapters.
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Build a Weather App
In this course, we will learn about a very common and important element of Android development: downloading data from the Internet! We will request weather forecast data from a free API provided by darksky.net. We will then parse that data (in JSON format) and display it in a single-page app. We will also see how to handle errors and situations when the network is unavailable.
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Introduction to Data Visualization with Matplotlib
Get started creating charts with the Python library, matplotlib, an industry-standard data visualization library. Matplotlib provides a way to easily generate a wide variety of plots and charts in a few lines of Python code. It is an open-source project that can be integrated into Python scripts, jupyter notebooks, web application servers, and multiple GUI toolkits. Whether you are exploring sample data available on the internet, or your own business data, learning matplotlib is a great place to start your data visualization journey.
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Data Visualization with Bokeh
Learn how to use the Bokeh library to generate interactive charts, graphs, and other visualizations using Python. We'll explore a world population data set and see how to generate different charts using this powerful library.