Mastering Python for Data Science: Roadmap
1. Python Foundations
- Variables, Data Types, Control Flow, Functions
- Data Structures (List, Dict, Set, Tuple)
- File I/O, Modules, Error Handling
2. Object-Oriented Programming
- Classes, Objects, Inheritance, Encapsulation
- Special Methods: __init__, __str__
3. Python for Data Science Toolkits
- NumPy (arrays, vectorization)
- Pandas (DataFrames, groupby, merging)
- Matplotlib & Seaborn (visualization)
- Scikit-learn (ML basics)
4. Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
- Handling missing values, outliers
- Feature engineering, normalization
5. Statistics & Probability
- Descriptive stats, Distributions
- Hypothesis testing, Correlation
6. Intermediate to Advanced Python
- Iterators, Generators, Decorators
- Context Managers, Regex, Functional Programming
7. Databases and SQL
- SQL basics, CRUD, Queries
Mastering Python for Data Science: Roadmap
- Using sqlite3 and SQLAlchemy
8. Web Scraping & APIs
- BeautifulSoup, requests, Selenium
- JSON parsing, API consumption
9. Advanced Data Analysis
- Time series, text data, pivot tables
10. Machine Learning (Scikit-learn)
- Supervised/Unsupervised learning
- Algorithms: Regression, Trees, SVM, Clustering
- Model evaluation, Cross-validation
11. Projects & Real-World Applications
- EDA, Predictive modeling
- Sentiment analysis, Streamlit dashboards
12. Tools for Efficiency
- Jupyter, Git, Virtual Envs
- Docker, IDEs (VS Code/PyCharm)
13. Capstone Projects
- Kaggle, End-to-end pipelines
- Flask/FastAPI deployment, GitHub portfolio