Training

Imagine if you had new skills and techniques that enables you to load, process, analyse and visualise data; transforming your productivity and increasing the visibility and engagement of your content

• WiFi Enabled 64bit Windows Laptop with Admin rights
• USB Port for memory stick (Training Data)
• Mouse with scroll wheel

Business, Financial and Data Analysts, Freelancers, Mathematicians, Financiers, Engineers, Scientists, Researchers, and Educators (with a background/training/practice/units  in Programming or Software Development)

• Consultants who handle and process data in a commercial setting.
•  Anyone with an interest and passion for data

• Advance your career with highly in-demand data visualisation skills for todays era of Big Data, AI and Analytics   
• Enhance your professional profile and boost your visibility by developing and creating visually striking charts that will captivate and inform your audience, driving decision making in your organisation
• Create engaging, impactful, memorable and professional standard visualisations for increased perception, comprehension and retention. 

Read, process, save and visualise data from a variety of sources.

• Create clear and clean visualisations suitable for dissertations.
• Produce professional visualisation suitable for print media, publications, presentations; enhanced with simple colours and a clean interface.
• Design and develop eye-catching charts and animations suitable for broadcast, internet news and social media.
• Bring your tabulated data to life, highlighting trends, distribution, classes, clusters, outliers and relationships.

• Dozens of programs, with many basic functions that can be used as building blocks to get you on your way.
• Well over a 20 different Data Sets, covering a wide range of topics that includes Politics, Economics, Finance, Sports, Population and Tweets.
• A wide variety of examples, covering Plots, Charts, Time Series and Animation. 
• Create your own dashboards and backgrounds (Templates Included). 
• Choose from a pallete of hundreds of colours to enhance your visual creations and enrich your imagery. 

Sessions

Session 1 - Introduction and Installations

• Introduction and Objectives
• Installation of Python Application and Libraries
• Installation of Visualisation Applications

Session 2 - Environment and Data Types (Double Session)

• IDLE environment and Commands.
• Programs, Functions and Arguments.
• Data Types (Lists, Strings, Sets, Tuples, Dictionary).
• Operators, Indexing, Slicing and Sorting.
• Conditional Statements and Loops.
• Type Verification and Conversions.
• Debugging.

Session 3 - Files, Pandas and Numpy

• Operating System Commands and Directories.
• Open, read, save and append files.
• Text, CSV and Excel (xls, xlsx) using Pandas
• Numpy and basic Maths functions.
• Finding and Handling missing data.
• Finding and Removing duplicate data.

Session 4 - Data Visualisation (Double Session)

• Storytelling with data.
• Chart selection.
• Anatomy of a plot (Figure, Plot, Axes, Legend, Titles, Axis).
• Pie, Bar Charts, Line, Scatter Plots, Histograms and More.
• Dasboards and Colour maps.
• Over 20 programs & data sets as examples.
• Generate and Save Images & Animations.

Session 5 - Exploring Data Visualisation in the media

• Explore data visualisation styles and techniques
• Two exercises to practice at home (Data provided)

2 Additional Developer features