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BIA 6312 - Introduction to Python for Data Analysis

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In this course you will learn how to program in Python and how to use Python for effective data analysis. The course covers fundamentals of programming including but not limited to environment setup, basic terminology, declaring variables, data types/structures, working with datetimes, operators, control flows, defining functions, and performing data analysis in Pandas (reading in data from delimited files and/or databases, creating new objects like series and dataframes, selection/hierarchical indexing, grouping, joining, and calculating descriptive statistics, and applying vectorized functions).