Python for Beginners (3 sessions) (Re-run)

Series: Digital Scholarship and Research Data Workshops (Aug-Oct 2023)

Date: 3 Nov, 10 Nov & 17 Nov 2023 (Fri)

Invited Speaker: Dr. Kwong-cheong WONG, Data Science and Policy Studies Programme

Content:

Session 1:

• Basics: variables, print(), f-strings, input()
• Data types: strings, numbers, Booleans
• Data structures: lists, tuples, dictionaries

Session 2:

• Conditionals: if, if-else, if-elif-else statements
• Loops: for loops, while loops
• Functions

Session 3:

• Manipulating tabular data using Pandas
• Data visualization using Matplotlib
• Web scraping using requests and Beautiful Soup