CP540-online

on-line materials for CP540

Getting to grips with Python

• Python is a calculator
• Python is a fancy calculator
• Lists: collections of data
• Dictionaries: flexible data organisation
• Modules: making use of other's code
• Plotting using matplotlib
• Conditional actions in Python
• Functions: repeating Python code
• Introduction to Pandas and data frames
  • Sample data file: function.csv
  • Sample data file: function.xlsx
• Working with Pandas data frames
  • UK electrical grid data
• Importing data into Pandas directly from websites
• Filtering and exploring data with Pandas
  • Solar irradiation data
• Interpolation of data
• Fitting and interpolation of data

More advanced stuff

• Reading and writing Excel spreadsheets using pandas and openpyxl
• Solving algebraic equations
• Solving algebraic equations with sympy

Example applications

• Weather monitoring

Data sources

• Our World in Data