Part I: Basic Python & Data Handling

Start Date: September 30, 2024

For programming novices who wish to learn foundational Python programming, without progressing to Machine Learning, this module can be taken, independently.

Price: £600 + VAT

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Basic Python:

A comprehensive introduction to programming in Python. Key study areas include:

- Algorithmic thinking
- Variables, types and operations
- Conditional statements
- Arrays, tuples, lists and indexing
- Iterations: for and while loops
- Dictionaries: associative arrays
- Functions: uses, applications and defining your own customised Python functions

Data Handling:

An introduction to importing, handling and analysing a variety of different data types, in Python. Key study areas include:

- - Import and characterisation of data as Pandas dataframes
  - Basic statistics
  - Data visualisation with Matplotlib
  - Bivariate and multivariate analyses
  - The Pearson correlation coefficient and correlation matrix
  - Image handling: import and characterisation of image data (greyscale and colour)
  - Image masking and segmentation
  - Time series: visualisation, filtering and Fourier transform
  - Relationships between time series data