Python for Data Science Masterclass – 4 course in 1

Welcome to this course on Python for Data Science. This is a 4 week course we are

going to teach you some very basic programming aspects in python. And since this is a

course that is geared towards data science towards another course based on what has

been taught in the course, we will also show you two different case studies one is what

we call as a function approximation case study another one a classification case study.

And then tell you how to solve those case studies using the programming platform that

you have learned. So, in this first introductory lecture I am just going to talk about why

are we looking at python for data science.

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So, to look at that first we are going to look at what data science is. This is something

that you would have seen in other videos of courses in the NPTEL in other places. Data

science is basically the science of analyzing raw data and deriving insights from this

data. And you could use multiple techniques to derive insights, you could use simple

statistical techniques to derive insights, you could use more complicated and more

sophisticated machine learning techniques to derive insights and so on.