Training Course

Using an slimmed down introductory python for beginners, a high level programming language used in the financial industry, healthcare, web developers and data science.  

Learn python coding, a very useful skill to add to your portfolio of abilities

Candidates will learn how to extract data and information for a variety of purposes, which includes further data analysis. 

• Researchers, Journalists, Marketers, Business Analysts, Programmers, Software Developers, Freelancers

• Learn an introductory level python programming;
• Develop new skills and techniques to extract meaningful information from text data
• Expand and accelerate outputs by covering more ground in a shorter space of time  
• Save time in searching for information in standard data tasks
• Automate and eliminate boring, repetitive and time consuming data tasks
• Broaden and deepen access to information through new sources
• Extract valuable information at scale and speed   
• Reduce errors and missed opportunities 

• Brand Monitoring: Monitor mentions of Companies and products, record a portfolio for tracking purposes 
• Investigations: Using search techniques to detect the presence of suspicious, illicit activity, counterfeit or prohibited goods on public websites
• Lead Generation: Scan public website and social media for potentially new business activities and opportunities
• Law: Sift through legal documents for related cases, saving time and money
• Finance: Detect new market entrants for investment opportunities

All delegates are expected to follow venue guidelines with regards to wearing of masks in all areas

WiFi enabled Windows Laptop with Admin rights

• With USB2 ports

Mozilla Firefox

Adobe Reader (PDF reader)

5-10 GB (memory space)

Regular Computer and web user

• Continuous practice and studies is required.
• Read code, learn and develop techniques. 
• Maintenance of a logbook

Introductory python course for beginners

Program, functions, libraries, environment

Data Types

• Lists, Strings, Dictionary, Sets

Operators

• Arithmetic, Comparison, Logical and Bitwise Operators
• Identity and Membership Operators

Conditional Statements and Loops

Troubleshooting and Debugging

Text Extraction

• PDF, Word documents

File Handling

Information Extraction

• Regular Expressions
• Named Entity Recognition (NER), spaCy
• Perform keyword(s) searches and phrases

Web Scraping 

• Automating Website Navigation
• Mouse and Keyboard Emulation