1.1 Introduction

  • Python—one of the world’s most widely used computer programming languages
  • Introduce terminology and concepts that lay the groundwork for the Python programming
  • Overview object-oriented programming terminology and concepts
  • Introduce the Python Standard Library and various data-science libraries that help you avoid “reinventing the wheel”
    • Perform significant tasks with modest numbers of instructions

1.1 Introduction (cont.)

  • Work through three test-drives showing how to execute Python code
    • Use IPython to execute Python instructions interactively and immediately see their results
    • Execute a Python script
    • Introduce Jupyter Notebooks using JupyterLab—an interactive, web-browser-based tool in which you can conveniently write and execute Python instructions
      • Can include text, images, audios, videos, animations and code

1.1 Introduction (cont.)

  • Learn just how big “big data” is and how quickly it’s getting even bigger
  • Big-data case study on the Waze mobile navigation app, which uses many current technologies to provide dynamic driving directions that get you to your destination as quickly and as safely as possible
    • We’ll mention where you’ll use many of the same technologies in this book
  • First Intro to Data Science section discusses a key intersection between computer science and data science—artificial intelligence

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