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https://sandbox.idre.ucla.edu/sandbox/workshops/introduction-to-python-2018-fall

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Workshop Outline:

  1. Installing Python (10 min)
  2. Basics of Python (30 min)
  3. Python applied
    1. Web Scraping (60 min)
    2. Visualizing data (20 min)
  4. Resources for Learning more Python
  5. Workshop Feedback/Comments

Workshop Goals:

  • Understand the basics of Python 2.7
  • Describe the different data types in Python
  • Identify a use cases for web scraping data
  • Learn how to scrape web data using the Selenium library
  • Visualize data using the Seaborn library