A beginner’s guide for beginners This article was originally posted here Before The Outset I’ve never been good enough to make complex manipulations on data but to writing algorithms and build web applications a big . Yes : Notes → This is not a guide to be a full Engineer, I’m just sharing what I started with in this field. Data Science This is not a unique path too. → Instead, you can consider it as one start study plan for those coming from and want to be . Software Development Junior Data Science engineer The voice of a beginner for others beginners. :) What is Data Science? Data science is a multidisciplinary blend of data inference, algorithm development, and technology in order to solve analytically complex problems. _"We have lots of data - now what?" (How can we unlock real value from our data?) Data science is a multidisciplinary…_datajobs.com What is Data Science? For me, it is all the things we are doing with data that can solve some problems and come out with business value or . growth Kind of Data As we said up there it is about manipulating data the whole time, but what kind of data can we manipulate? On the internet or large enterprise applications there are a lot of data coming from different sources as social media, call to actions, simple forms, log data, transactions, emails …All things we are doing online or others place required the most times that we input data, these data can be in different types: Text Photo Audio Video … Also in different formats: : those with a certain degree of organization for further querying and/or analysis. As the one stored in or in files. Structured data Relational Database Management System Json, Xml, Xls : easy to understand(not formatted), the opposite of the first. Semi-structured and Unstructured data Programming languages for Data Science There are a lot of languages to Data Sciencing(hahaha), some of them are very popular and more used than others.There are a few: R, Python, Java … Job Posting by Indeed Job Seekers by Indeed Google Trend Percentage of search interest in R and Python for Data Science: R in Red and Python in sky Blue Why I choose to start Data Science with Python I have not just chosen to learn Data Science because it is also better paid in the tech industry. I’m firstly a passionate developer, Ok? Then love to implement and discover a lot and I will surely use it in a venture we launched with some partners. Python because it is also used a lot in this field and is one of the first programming languages I started with and found easy. Intro to Python for Data Science I start Data Science with a free and very educative certification available on , it helps me to introduce myself to this field to be able to start in a new way in my career. www.datacamp.com The course _DataCamp's Into to Python course teaches you how to use Python programming for data science with interactive video…_www.datacamp.com Learn Python for Data Science - Online Course What I learned there Manipulating python list in deep Manipulating Numpy array Subsetting Numpy array Subsetting 2D Numpy array Simple exploration of data Basic statistic Practice There are a lot of and I earned there on this free course, I will show you some examples of things I learn there, but impossible to put all here, it is not the intent of this post and it is too much: exercises XP XP Earned 4700 Courses Completed 1 Exercises Aced 57 1. Python List Create a list: mySimpleList = [12, 43, 54, 34, 90] #Simple list with same typemyWeirdList  = ['a', 43, 54, 'c', 90]   #Different types of items Print a list print(myList) # Knowing that the list is already created List of list countries = [["Cameroon", "CM"],["Nigeria", "NG"],["France", "FR"],["Gabon", "GA"]] Type of a variable To print the type of variable, just hit this: print(type(myVariable)) Index list[4] = list[-2] = 5 Subsetting list A subsetting always return a list. Here the first index is included in the result and the last is not. list[1:4] = [2, 3, 4] # From index 1 to index 3 included list[:4] = [1, 2, 3, 4] # From the start to index 3 included list[1:] = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] # From index 1 to the end 2. Numpy Array : pip3 install numpy Install Numpy Import Numpy There is some manner to import python package/function, let’s focus on these two for this post: # Here we will address numpy array with numpy.array import numpy # Address numpy array with np.array import numpy as np From list to numpy Array # Using countries list declared up therecountries_np_array = np.array(countries) subsetting np array countries_np_array[:, 1] = array([‘CM’, ‘NG’, ‘FR’, ‘GA’])# Return all country code, all rows and the second column age_array = np.array([2, 4, 6, 8]) age_selector = age_array >= 4# result array([False,  True,  True,  True], dtype=bool) # Now use this selector to index the new array print(age_array[age_selector]) # result array([4, 6, 8]) Note: does not allow multiple types on an array and will force all type to be same. Numpy age_array = np.array([True, 4, False, 8]) print(age_array) #result array([1, 4, 0, 8]) Operation over collections age = [2, 4, 6, 8]div = [2, 2, 2, 4] age_array = np.array(age) # Numpy array of agesdiv_array = np.array(div) # Numpy array of divs # divide python list# Traceback (most recent call last):# File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>#TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: ‘list’ and ‘list’ print(age/div) # Will compute without issue on each item # result print(age_array/div_array) array([ 1.,  2.,  3.,  2.]) Data Science deals with a lot of information to analyze, sort and do other things on, then it needs to do mathematical operations over collections quickly. 3. Little stats with Numpy : np.mean(your_numpy_array_or_axis) Average : np.median(your_numpy_array_or_axis) Median : np.std(your_numpy_array_or_axis) Standard Deviation Supposed we have an array representing the grade of 3 students of a class in two courses(French and English): import numpy as npstudent_grades = np.array([[12, 16], [15.5, 9], [5, 16]]) # Average of student's grade in **French**# Here we select all the rows and the french axis(the first column)french_average = np.average(student_grades[:, 0]) # result: 10.833333333333334 print(french_average) # Standart deviation of student's grade in **English**# We select all the rows and the english axis(the second column)english_std = np.std(student_grades[:, 1]) # result: 3.2998316455372216 print(english_std) Got my first certification in this field :) There are also a lot of interesting community courses available but : non-certifying _Are you looking to build your data analysis skill set? Try one of our free open courses and see why over 460,000 data…_www.datacamp.com Free Data Science and Analysis Training Courses | DataCamp Let’s Work together Ping me if you are looking or you would like to have a partner to study and master Data Science with, I’m available for . peer learning Conclusion I think that start by practice using a simple and detailed course with a good scope is worth it for learning new things. Thrilled to have it and excited to learn more using online resources and other posts about Data Science. I would also like to know how you started or which advice can you give to a beginner like me. **Thanks for reading this post, recommend and share if you enjoyed it. Follow me on** Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and visit my blog . Cheers!

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