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Basics Workshop Series

This 8-week workshop will teach the basics of the Python programming language with a focus on managing data. Each week will cover the following topics:

• September 26th: Introduction to Jupyter & Data Centric Python Part ONe
• October 3rd: Data Centric Python Part One
• October 10th: Computing Environments: Unix Shell, JupyterLab, Markdown
• October 17th: Data Processing with Python and Pandas Part One
• October 24th: Data Processing with Python and Pandas Part Two
• October 31st: Relational Databases and SQL Part One
• November 7th: Relational Databases and SQL Part Two
• November 14th: Data Visualization with Python

Times:

• The Data Basics workshop series will be Wednesdays from 5:30pm to 8:30pm

Location:

• Digital Scholarship Commons on the ground floor of Hillman Library (3960 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260)

Instructional Team:

• Matt Burton (mcburton@pitt.edu)
• Andrew Levandoski (andrewlevandoski@pitt.edu)
• Dmitriy Babichenko (dmitriy.b@pitt.edu)
• Panos Chrysanthis (panos@pitt.edu)

The Setup

• Bring a laptop (and power). You do not need to install any software, everythign will be running in the cloud.

• We will be using the Center for Research Computing services for hosting the course.

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