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# Preface

This is the ebook accompanying the course Programming 1 of the course Data Science for Life Sciences. This gitbook covers the fundamentals of data analysis (in python).  Basic skills such as data processing and data visualisation are discussed. The following topics are covered

1\.     Introduction programming in python, work with data frames

2\.    Inspecting and exploring data, descriptive statistics

3\.    Improve data quality, data cleaning, imputing data, normalising data 

3\.    Data visualisation, commonly used plots in data science

source code and data used in this ebook:[ https://github.com/fenna/BFVM19PROG1](https://github.com/fenna/BFVM19PROG1) 


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