LSESU Data Science Society: Python for MA

Facebook Event Link: To be added

The first workshop, we introduce the potential of using Python to help with your MA courses.

Slides available here

Google Colab Notebook (Code)

We discuss:

Python for Calculus

• Using Python for functions
• Using the matplotlib library to plot and visualise functions
• Example: Using Gradient Descent for functions of one variable for optimisation problems

Python for Linear Algebra

• Using the numpy to do operations on Matrices (sum, product, inverses, eigenvalues)
• Example: Markov Chains

Finally we introduce the linkage between Multivariate Calculus, Linear Algebra, (and Python) in the Stochastic Gradient Descent algorithm, an important method in Machine Learning

Futher Learning

Scipy Lectures: https://scipy-lectures.org/

05/10/2020