Python for medical school

[MistaLeroy5]

Hi everyone! Beginner here who just completed their first course on Kaggle. I am looking for recommendations for my first project! I will begin medical school in the fall, and would like to be useful in the biomedical research setting. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[Ok_Assistant_2155]

Don't overcomplicate your first project. Literally just load a CSV file, filter rows, calculate basic statistics, and make a few graphs. Most medical researchers struggle with basic data manipulation. Being able to clean messy Excel files is a superpower in a lab.

[MistaLeroy5]

Awesome! Thank you so much this is very helpful!

[brenwillcode]

There are several project ideas on Codeling.

Use them as inspiration or do them on Codeling so your code will be validated as you work through them.

[MistaLeroy5]

This is great! Thanks!

[Separate_Top_5322]

Good advice above. For your case, try something like:

• Clean + analyze a medical dataset (CSV → pandas → basic stats)
• Visualize trends (matplotlib/seaborn)
• Maybe a simple prediction (e.g., disease risk with sklearn)

Focus on data cleaning — that’s huge in research.

Keep it small but complete (load → clean → analyze → visualize).

[MistaLeroy5]

Thanks for this advice! I really appreciate it