Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Learn to Code for Data Analysis
This course explored how to write computer programs, one line of code at a time, to download, clean, analyse and visualise open data. The course also taught how to write up and share data analyses in a reproducible way. Each week of this course was organised around a specific analysis project using open data from the World Health Organisation, the Weather Underground, the World Bank and the United Nations.
4 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic programming concepts.
- Develop an awareness of open data sources as a public resource.
- Using a programming environment to develop programs.
- Produce and write simple programs to analyse large bodies of data and produce useful results.
Syllabus
- Python: variables, assignments, expressions, basic data types, if-statement, functions
- Programming: using Jupyter Notebooks, writing readable and documented code, testing code
- Data analysis: using pandas to read CSV and Excel files, to clean, filter, partition, aggregate and summarise data, and to produce simple charts
Issued on 26th February 2018
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