After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations and dashboards
Shoebur RahmanProcurement Specialist, Giz Bangladesh
Course Description
Are you looking for a better solution than the one you’ve built in a spreadsheet? If so, then Python for Spreadsheet Users is a great introduction to the Python language, and will put you on the right path towards automating repetitive work, diving deeper into your data, and widening the scope of what you are capable of accomplishing. Throughout the course, we’ll draw parallels to common spreadsheet functions and techniques, so you’ll always have a familiar reference point as you dive head first into Python.
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Curriculum
Course outline
1
Diving In
Let's get right into it! In this chapter, you'll become acclimated with Python syntax, loading your data into a Python session, and how to explore and edit this data to answer business questions.
- Welcome to Python!50 XP
- Importing packages100 XP
- Loading data100 XP
- Looking at data with print()100 XP
- DataFrames and their methods50 XP
- The .head() method100 XP
- .info() and .describe() methods50 XP
- The .sort_values() method100 XP
- Filtering rows and creating columns50 XP
- Filtering100 XP
- Creating columns100 XP
- Putting it all together100 XP
2
Pivoting in Python
The pivot table is a core tool in the savvy spreadsheet user's arsenal. In this chapter, we'll focus on simply recreating this functionality in Python using some handy DataFrame methods.
3
Working with Multiple Sheets
This chapter will focus on how to import and manage multiple sheets from a workbook, as well as how to join these sheets together using the Python equivalent of a VLOOKUP: the left join.
4
Plotting Data
Now that you're able to import and manipulate your data in Python, let's shift our focus to visualizing this data so that our insights are easily communicable to others.
Python for Spreadsheet Users
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