Hands-On Advanced Python: Data Engineering Basics

1h 56mAdvanced2023-09-13

Authors

Joe Marini

Senior Developer Advocate at Google, Developer

Course details

Looking to get up to speed with advanced coding skills in Python? This course was made for you. Join instructor Joe Marini in this hands-on, interactive, skills-first coding course designed for advanced-level Python developers. Explore critical Python coding skills to boost your technical know-how or prepare for an interview to land a new role. This course includes Code Challenges powered by CoderPad: interactive coding exercises with real-time feedback, so you can get hands-on coding practice to advance your coding skills. Joe helps you develop your skills as a Python programmer with five specific, data-focused coding challenges. Practice parsing and exploring data, working with collections, math and statistics, and more.

Skills covered

AdvancedPythonProgramming LanguagesOpen SourceSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Hands-on with advanced Python
02 - What you should know
03 - Getting set up - Codespaces
04 - CoderPad challenges
05 - The sample weather data set

1. Parsing and Exploring Data

06 - Loading and parsing JSON data
07 - Basic data operations
08 - Filtering data
09 - Solution - Filtering
10 - Sorting data
11 - Transforming data
12 - Solution - Transforms

2. Working with Collections

13 - Count values with defaultdict
14 - Using the reduce function
15 - Grouping data
16 - Working with dates
17 - Solution - Collections

3. Math and Statistics

18 - Random values
19 - Random operations on sequences
20 - Solution - Random days
21 - Statistical functions
22 - Solution - Detect outliers

Conclusion

23 - Next steps