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Writing Efficient Python Code

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Learn to write efficient code that executes quickly and allocates resources skillfully to avoid unnecessary overhead.

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As a Data Scientist, the majority of your time should be spent gleaning actionable insights from data -- not waiting for your code to finish running. Writing efficient Python code can help reduce runtime and save computational resources, ultimately freeing you up to do the things you love as a Data Scientist. In this course, you'll learn how to use Python's built-in data structures, functions, and modules to write cleaner, faster, and more efficient code. We'll explore how to time and profile code in order to find bottlenecks. Then, you'll practice eliminating these bottlenecks, and other bad design patterns, using Python's Standard Library, NumPy, and pandas. After completing this course, you'll have the necessary tools to start writing efficient Python code!
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  1. 1

    Foundations for efficiencies

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    In this chapter, you'll learn what it means to write efficient Python code. You'll explore Python's Standard Library, learn about NumPy arrays, and practice using some of Python's built-in tools. This chapter builds a foundation for the concepts covered ahead.

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    Welcome!
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    Pop quiz: what is efficient
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    A taste of things to come
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    Zen of Python
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    Building with built-ins
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    Built-in practice: range()
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    Built-in practice: enumerate()
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    Built-in practice: map()
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    The power of NumPy arrays
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    Practice with NumPy arrays
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    Bringing it all together: Festivus!
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    Timing and profiling code

    In this chapter, you will learn how to gather and compare runtimes between different coding approaches. You'll practice using the line_profiler and memory_profiler packages to profile your code base and spot bottlenecks. Then, you'll put your learnings to practice by replacing these bottlenecks with efficient Python code.

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  • Luis P.
    17 days

    excellent

  • Ghebremichael G.
    about 1 month

    Writing Efficient Python Code

  • Junseok C.
    3 months

    Structured course, learned efficient way of coding in Python

  • Lyndon H.
    6 months

    As someone who started coding in Assembler, I've always used looping when coding and was interested to see that alternative means were available. To paraphrase Monty Python "your loopings or your life" (Dennis Moore).

  • Alexis M.
    7 months

    This was a hole in my knowledge and I really liked how this course built up to more efficient techniques. I’ll definitely be using the notes I made for this course in the future!

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"Structured course, learned efficient way of coding in Python"

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