README.md

QSS20 activities

This public repo has content for the Fall 2023 iteration of QSS20: Modern Statistical Computing at Dartmouth College. The main components are slides and associated Jupyter notebook-based activities to practice Python or other concepts. The sections and skills covered are as follows.

Data wrangling and visualization

Introduction to pandas for data wrangling

• Activity: 00_pandas_datacleaning_blank.ipynb
• Data: DC crime reports in 2020
• Concepts covered:
  • Aggregation using groupby and agg
  • Lambda functions within aggregation
  • Recoding variables using np.where
  • Recoding variables using np.select
  • Recoding variables using map and dictionary

(more to come throughout the quarter)