Lectures

A list of all the lecture recordings. These are also linked on the unit splash pages.

Introduction to command line interface (CLI)

Contiuation of CLI: bash variables, scripts, and environments. Introduction to Conda.

Introduction to Git and GitHub; how to use GitHub Classroom.

Overview of assignment 1. Introduction to Python: input, output, variables, types, conditionals.

Python lists and dictionaries; definite and indefinite loops. (Pre-recorded lecture.)

Python functions; string operations; file I/O. (Pre-recorded lecture.)

Python classes; imports

Introduction to Streamlit

Adding command-line options to Python scripts using Argparse

Numpy; intro to Pandas Series

Intro to Pandas DataFrame

Combining DataFrames with concat and merge

Cleaning data and applying funcitons with Pandas

Grouping data and creating pivot tables with Pandas

Introduction to Web APIs: using GET and the CENT IoT API

Web APIs: using PUT and caching

Creating your own API with FastAPI

Introduction to web scraping

More scraping + actionability

Using locators; playwright + Streamlit

Visualization 1: intro to matplotlib and Seaborn

Visualization 2: more Seaborn plots; KDE; saving plots

Visualization 3: Creating visualizations with maps