Data Science

for Beginners
Using Python

By:
Prof. Vishwas Srivastava
Prof. Abhishek Dixit
Outline What is Data?

The Ascendance of Data

Science in Data Science

Why Python?

Anaconda Installation

Google Colab
What is Data? Data are individual pieces of factual
information recorded and used for
the purpose of analysis. It is the raw
information from which statistics are
created.

Processed data, sometimes called as

Information.
 We live in a world that’s drowning
in data.
Websites track every user’s every click.
The Ascendance Your smartphone is building up a record of
your location and speed every second of
of Data every day.

Smart cars collect driving habits, smart

homes collect living habits, and smart
marketers collect purchasing habits.

Buried in these data are answers to

countless questions, we’ll learn how to
find them.
 It is about finding and exploring
data in real world.
After that we can use that information or
Science in knowledge to solve the business
problems.
Data Science
Data science is an interdisciplinary field
that uses scientific methods, processes,
algorithms and systems to extract
knowledge and insights from structured
and unstructured data
 Guido Van Rossum
1991
Monty Python's Flying Cicuis

Why
1

Python?
1. Simplicity
2. Scalability
3. Libraries and
Frameworks
4. Web
Development
5. Huge Community
 ● Go to https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual
● Scroll down to the installer, suitable for your operating
Installing System.
● It comes with tones of pre-installed libraries used in data
Anaconda science.
 Anaconda
These are the some tools and libraries that
comes pre-installed with ANACONDA.

You do not need to manually install these.

The Jupyter Notebook is an open source

web application that you can use to create
and share documents that contain live code,
equations, visualizations, and text.
Google
Colab

Colab is a Python development environment that runs in the browser

using Google Cloud.
References
Data Science from Scratch FIRST PRINCIPLES WITH PYTHON

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science

https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual

https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/intro.ipynb
Thank
You