Python Training Course - Advanced
Learn Python for data analysis, instructor-led course.
Following on from our Python Intermediate course, Python Advanced will build on your knowledge of Python and pandas. The focus of this course is learning to work more efficiently in Python.
You will learn to use control flow structures and loops and write your own custom functions and classes to automate analyses and improve efficiency. Other learning outcomes include the use of method chaining and pipes to perform multiple operations on DataFrames, the creation of interactive visualisations with Bokeh and the writing of code to automate these processes.
Python Training Course - Advanced
Following on from our Python Intermediate Course, Advanced Python for Data Analysis will build on your knowledge of Python and pandas. You will learn to use control flow structures and loops and write your own custom functions and classes to automate analyses and improve efficiency.
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We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
We currently have no public courses scheduled. Please contact us to register your interest.
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Course Introduction
Our Python courses were designed by Tamara Shatar, who holds a PhD in Agricultural Data Science. She focused her extensive experience and skills in modelling using machine learning, simulation and other techniques to create a course with depth and applicability.
The course is consistently well-reviewed by students.
"The trainer was engaging, explains concepts well and is accommodating to questions. I found the Python Intermediate pulls together the content from the previous two course in a practical way. There is plenty of material to refer to assist in real data analysis projects." - Python Advanced, Sydney
Is Python compatible with Microsoft?
Python can be used within a number of Microsoft products. In Power BI, reusable Python scripts can be used to manipulate data and create visualisations. In Azure, machine learning models can be written in Python and trained and deployed within the Azure Machine Learning Workspace.
What is Remote Training?
Remote training at Nexacu means our experienced trainers will deliver your training virtually. With remote learning, students can access our usual classroom training courses via video conferencing, ask questions, participate in the discussion, and share their screen with the trainer if they need help at any point in the course. Students have the same level of participation and access to the trainer as they would in classroom training sessions.
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What do I need to know to attend?
Students should have attended these courses or be very familiar with the concepts covered in them. You will not be expected to write code from scratch but having these skills will better enable them to engage with the content.
The minimum requirements are being comfortable with:
- Python
- Python built-in data structures
- lists, dictionaries, tuples and sets
- pandas DataFrames
- DataFrame methods
- Basic familiarity with Matplotlib
Python Advanced Learning Outcomes
In this course, you will learn to:
- create user-defined functions and classes
- use loops and other control structures, plus alternatives
- use method chaining and pipes to perform multiple operations on DataFrames
- create interactive visualisations with Bokeh
- write code to automate these processes
Python Advanced Course Content
- Introduction
- Working more efficiently in Python
- Automating frequent data analysis operations
- Principles of working more efficiently with code
- User-Defined Functions
- When to create your own functions
- Function basics
- Parameters
- Positional vs keyword arguments
- Defining a function
- Indentation
- Scope
- *args and **kwargs
- Unpacking operators
- Order of arguments in a function
- Adding a docstring
- Assertions
- Loafing functions for reuse
- lambda expressions
- Loops and Other Control Structures
- if…elif...else
- for loops
- Loop over sequences
- Loop over ranges
- Enumerate
- Loop over pandas groups
- Loop over multiple lists while loops
- else, break and continue
- Saving results from a loop
- Combining loops and functions
- Loop and if-else alternatives
- np.where() and np.select()
- Conditional expressions
- List comprehensions
- Python built-in map() function
- Evaluating performance efficiency
- IPython and magic commands
- pandas map()
- pandas apply() and applymap()
- User-Defined Classes
- When to create your own class
- Defining classes
- Docstrings
- The __init__() method
- The self parameter
- Class objects – attribute references and instantiation
- Data attributes
- Methods
- Scope
- Dunder methods
- Performing multiple operations on DataFrames
- Method chaining
- Using pandas pipes with custom functions
- Interactive Visualisations with Bokeh
- Bokeh basics
- Working with Bokeh in Jupyter
- Glyphs
- Providing data
- Using the Bokeh toolbar
- Customising the Bokeh toolbar
- Creating links between plots
- Using interactive legends
- Add tooltips
- Plotting from a grouped pandas
- DataFrame
- Save your Bokeh chart