Name
Introduction to Python
Date & Time
Friday, April 11, 2025, 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Description

As a popular high-level language, Python has many excellent features that data scientists like: easy to learn, object oriented, cross-platform, open source, and many extensions for machine learning. It is widely used in many data science challenges from the front end to the back end. Good Python programming makes it easier to analyze sports data. The workshop will cover the following contents in-class: Python data types, methods for moving data, and functions.

Session Type
Workshop
Title
Introduction to Python
Abstract
As a popular high-level language, Python has many excellent features that data scientists like: easy to learn, object oriented, cross-platform, open source, and many extensions for machine learning. It is widely used in many data science challenges from the front end to the back end. Good Python programming makes it easier to analyze sports data. The workshop will cover the following contents in-class: Python data types, methods for moving data, and functions.

Prerequisites: A laptop with internet access. We will be working with Jupyter Notebooks on Google
Speaker Bio
Charitarth Chugh is a senior majoring in Computer Science at the University of Connecticut and also the President of UConn Artificial Intelligence Club. This year, he is researching the intersections of cybersecurity and deep learning for attack detection alongside multimodal (audio, text, and video) models.
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