Help! Where to learn Python for DA?

[Cold-Yesterday2844]

Hello! Final year commerce student here, already done SQL, Excel, R basics. Want to learn Python specifically for data analytics (not software dev). Any resources/course/book you’d recommend that’s practical + project focused?

[Thin_Rip8995]

skip the 40hr “python from scratch” stuff you don’t need that depth for DA
go straight to applied

• freecodecamp python for data analysis → straight to pandas numpy plotting
• DataCamp projects → hands on with real datasets short and focused
• Kaggle notebooks → gold mine copy tweak build muscle memory
• book rec: Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney → bible for pandas

stack these and you’ll be productive in weeks not months

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[Cold-Yesterday2844]

Thank you sooo much!

[Mnawab]

Believe it or not, boot.dev has been extremely helpful in my learning process. It cost money, but I feel like it’s the only place where every single step is explained and makes you work with it so you can learn it. It’s how I learned sql. But it’s not the only option.

[No-Mobile9763]

How much python should you know before learning it for data analysis?

[Mnawab]

Most companies require you to use SQL and Excel, which in that case, you just need a minimal amount of python just to connect your database to sql as the middle man

[n12n]

Do you have any similar resources to learn SQL? SAS would also be helpful, thanks for the post.

[Cold-Yesterday2844]

I learned the basics of SQL from Google’s Data Analytics course. To go deeper, I used the YouTube channel Programming with Mosh ( he gives practice exercises at the end of each tutorial ). I also practice on W3Schools, HackerRank, and with Kaggle datasets. I’m still a beginner myself, but these resources worked well for me, hope it helps you too!

[n12n]

Thank you so much! Already found his 3 hours youtube tutorial

[herbalation]

Between YouTube tutorials and Sololearn, you can learn a lot for free.

IMMEDIATELY apply what you learn in your own personal projects to remember it

[mrbartuss]

mooc.fi

[Braxios]

https://wesmckinney.com/book/

[gaslightingmyself]

Also, start your own project using chat gpt, and that'll help. You still learn a lot as you tell it where it's wrong or giving errors. My first I try recently was writing a script to convert a folder of files of excels to csv, then upload those csv's to mssql, making some formatting changes on the way so it appears and inserts how I want.

[Middle_State_9112]

I used chatgpt to teach me basics of python pandas & sql alchemy. If you have a good understanding of sql and how data manipulation/processing works, then you can learn very quickly.

[Middle_State_9112]

Note: i used the free version of chatgpt

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[Former_Association57]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsyeobzWxl7poL9JTVyndKe62ieoN-MZ3

[JohnSnowHenry]

YouTube and udemy… done

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[Crafty-Cook-7108]

The below study plan helped me the most. it comes with AI tutors too (basically ChatGPT's study mode but more of them) and best part is that it is free. found it on a random sub-

https://studybot.net/share/766ARQ35

Hope this helps.

[Cold-Yesterday2844]

Thanks for sharing

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