
Master data science with SQL and Python takes you from Python foundations to machine learning, covering NumPy, Pandas, MySQL, SQL fundamentals, visualization, statistics, and a capstone on Kenya's housing prices.
Define data science as an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge from structured and unstructured data.
Explore the data science landscape across statistics, machine learning, data analysis and visualization, data engineering, and ethical privacy, and learn Python and SQL through small projects.
Trace the evolution of data science from early databases to the digital explosion, data mining, big data, machine learning, and AI integration.
Develop a versatile data scientist who masters statistics, mathematics, Python and SQL, and domain knowledge. Communicate results through visualization and apply machine learning techniques to drive business decisions.
Discover essential data science tools, including Python, R, and SQL, databases and NoSQL, cloud platforms, Tableau and Power BI dashboards, and Jupyter notebook workflows.
Explore data science in action across problem definition, data collection, cleaning, analysis, interpretation, and implementation to boost retail sales with personalized promotions, insights, and inventory optimization.
Explore the data science life cycle—from defining the problem and collecting data to cleaning, exploring, modeling, interpreting results, and deploying solutions—illustrated with a game-like workflow.
Explore ethical considerations in data science, including privacy, consent, bias, transparency, accountability, and social impact, while outlining the data science ecosystem and roles from data engineers to machine learning engineers.
Explore how probability underpins data science, with practical discussions of Bayes' theorem and posterior probability, and how to apply statistics like chi test and ANOVA in real data.
Explore inferential statistics by comparing with descriptive statistics, and master estimation and hypothesis testing using confidence intervals, p-values, null and alternative hypotheses, and tests like t, ANOVA, and chi-square.
Explore Python basics, including what Python is, how to install it, and how to use Anaconda and Jupyter notebooks for data science with Python.
Master Python syntax by tracing line structure, statements, indentation, and comments. Explore variables, strings, integers, floats, booleans, dynamic typing, and PEP 8 naming conventions like snake_case.
Explore data structures in Python, including lists, sets, tuples, and dictionaries, learning how each structure stores and accesses data, order, mutability, and operations like append, insert, remove, add, update.
Master Python data structures and string manipulation, including lists, sets, tuples, dictionaries, and replace, join, split, and reverse, then master arithmetic, assignment, logical, and identity operators.
Master Python control structures to manage program flow with while and for loops, break and continue. Learn about else branches and how modular, error-aware code improves readability.
Define Python functions as reusable blocks with def, parameters, and an optional return. Call them to perform tasks, show scope rules, default arguments, docstrings, and lambda alternatives.
Master Python file handling by distinguishing text and binary files, opening, reading, writing, appending, and managing paths, plus copying, renaming, deleting, and handling errors.
Learn to work with numpy arrays, perform elementwise operations, broadcast shapes, and apply linear algebra and random number generation for data science.
Learn Pandas essentials for data science, including series and data frames, reading and writing CSV and Excel, data manipulation, cleaning, transformation, time series, and basic analysis with numpy integration.
Master SciPy and Matplotlib essentials for data analysis in Python, covering optimize, stats, linalg, io, and plotting methods like line, scatter, histogram, bar plots, and subplots.
Learn to connect Python with MySQL by installing the MySQL connector, testing connections, and using a cursor to execute queries, then fetch results and convert them to a data frame.
Master Python with MySQL by creating databases and tables, establishing connections, and defining tables with rows and columns, including primary keys, using Python code and MySQL workbench.
Learn to perform core MySQL operations in Python, including describing table schema, altering tables, dropping tables, and inserting records using a Python MySQL connector.
Master data management with Python and MySQL by reading records, filtering with where, joining multiple tables, and handling transactions, including create, insert, update, and delete operations.
Explore the fundamentals of machine learning, including supervised and unsupervised learning, data preparation, features and labels, training and testing data, model fitting, evaluation metrics, and common algorithms with Python tools.
Explore supervised machine learning with classification and regression, training models on labeled data using scikit-learn, including decision trees, naive Bayes, and linear regression, with evaluation and deployment basics.
Explore supervised machine learning with logistic regression, support vector machines, and random forests, then master unsupervised clustering using k-means, mean shift, and hierarchical methods.
Explore an end-to-end data science capstone project in Python that applies machine learning to automate loan eligibility, featuring data preprocessing, feature engineering, classification with random forest, and segmentation using clustering.
An introduction to advanced machine learning concepts within a data science curriculum using SQL and Python to build predictive models.
This course comprehensively introduces data science using Python and MySQL, combining essential data manipulation, analysis, and database management skills. You'll learn Python's powerful data science libraries, including Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib, to clean, analyze, and visualize data. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience with MySQL, mastering SQL queries, database creation, and data management techniques to store and retrieve data efficiently.
Through real-world projects, you will explore the entire data science pipeline—data collection, storage, analysis, and visualization—while understanding how Python and MySQL integrate to solve practical problems. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to manipulate and analyze datasets, create insightful visualizations, and work confidently with databases, equipping you with the skills to handle diverse data science challenges in any professional setting. Suitable for beginners and intermediates.
You'll also delve into key statistical concepts and machine learning basics, applying predictive models to extract insights from data. The course emphasizes practical applications, guiding you through structured exercises and real-world datasets to reinforce your understanding. With Python, you'll automate data workflows and create interactive dashboards, while MySQL enables you to efficiently manage and query complex datasets. By the end, you’ll have a robust toolkit for tackling data science tasks, from initial data exploration to delivering data-driven insights and actionable recommendations across various industries.