Dear all, We are excited to announce our upcoming online course: Advanced Python for Life Sciences, which will be held from 9-11 September 2024. Course Website: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/advanced-python/ This three-day course aims to provide the foundations and typical workflow of data science, with a particular focus on biology and life sciences, using the Python programming language. Participants will delve into intermediate to advanced Python concepts through engaging, hands-on coding exercises. This course is intended for biologists and life scientists at all levels who have some prior programming experience and basic knowledge of Python (including general syntax, variables, lists, dictionaries, conditionals, loops, and functions). By the end of the course, participants will be able to: - Understand the different steps of a data science workflow in biology. - Write Python code for data wrangling and interaction with common bioinformatics formats. - Grasp the basics of machine learning using Python. - Understand the principles of data visualization with practical applications in Python. Monday - Classes from 2-6 PM Berlin time Introduction to data science and its applications in biology Python refresher Intermediate Python: functions, classes, modules, tips & tricks Data preprocessing and wrangling Tuesday - Classes from 2-6 PM Berlin time Machine learning: Introduction and theoretical foundations Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning Commonly used algorithms Feature engineering and selection Train-test split and cross-validation Hands-on with scikit-learn Wednesday - Classes from 2-6 PM Berlin time Data visualization: Introduction and theoretical concepts Principles and common errors Hands-on with Python plotting libraries such as matplotlib and seaborn For the full list of our courses and workshops, please visit: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/ Best regards, Carlo Carlo Pecoraro, Ph.D Physalia-courses DIRECTOR info@physalia-courses.org mobile: +49 17645230846 "info@physalia-courses.org" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)