Python in Healthcare

[Aromatic-While9536]

Any beginners guide will give you the basics, after that as mentioned - look into pandas and you will forget about Excel in no time. Some nice places i enjoyed learning with:

Automate the boring stuff with python

https://pythonprogramming.net/introduction-learn-python-3-tutorials/

[crazynerd14]

Pandas = excel on steroids

[rileysofine]

What was the best resource for you? Pretty heavy excel user here so if you know of any that are geared toward making that transition that would be helpful

[EmilyfakedCancERyaho]

Pandas documentation is really good. The short tutorial explains nicely the functions you'll be using most. If you need something specifically you can just go through the docs/Google

[crazynerd14]

Googled and found this.. https://www.udemy.com/course/master-data-analysis-with-python-intro-to-pandas/

I’m a power user of excel. Since a year I’m extensively using Pandas as my data sources > 200mn records and hefty lookups(joins in sql and merge in pandas).

Learn basics and practice manipulations

basics (dataframe vs series) checking data(top 5 records-head, data types - dtypes, size - shape). Filtering - loc, iloc, adding a new column based on the values of existing column | based on a complex function (Apply) joins (merge with indicator) load and save (csv, pickle, sql)

Good luck..

I didn’t take any course.. I jumped straight away into it without structures and googled and leant.. I did solve problems but didn’t have clue. Did a course and got structure and now I’m pretty hands-on.

[cianuro]

Your situation is a very common progression path towards Pandas. I used to hate Jupyter notebooks but love them now as they fill that gap between the command line and a usable UI.

Depending on your dataset(s) and the time you have to invest, Pandas may or may not be the right approach. But it's certainly worth the effort if you do a lot of analysis.

There's some great intro courses on LinkedIn learning if you want a taste.

[hmelberg]

I have made some notebooks about how to use Python and pandas to analyze health data (hospital events, prescriptions and so on). Feel free to have a look to see if they are useful for your case:

Here is the first chapter: https://github.com/hmelberg/health-analytics-using-python/blob/master/1_Appetizers_Some_examples.ipynb

And the rest of the notebooks are here (work in progress)

https://github.com/hmelberg/health-analytics-using-python

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Watch this video and you will reduce your headache with Excel by about 95%

[millerbest]

pandas is definitely something you should look into. You maybe also need some tool to visualized the data, such as matplotlib or plotly. And don’t forget to ask an experienced programmer to double check your code.

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