The next scheduled offering of this workshop is May 20 and 21, 2015 from 9-11 each day. The workshop will take place in the Earl Lewis room of the Rackham Building.
Information for participants:
The workshop will focus on the use of Python and the numpy and Pandas libraries for data management.
Participants should be familiar with basic Python or at minimum with another data-oriented programming language such as R.
Materials from past workshops are provided below. This site will be updated as the workshop approaches.
No pre-registration is necessary.
Workshop materials
Background information regarding Python for data analysis and scientific computing.
Basic data structure manipulations (notebook)
Daily weather data from the NCDC Global Surface Network
Link to source data at NCDC
Main analysis (notebook)
Spatial analysis of birth and death locations of notable people
US 2012 Medicare payment data