Python Basics for Healthcare Applications
Course Overview
Designed for beginners, this course introduces Python programming with a focus on healthcare applications. Participants will learn core programming concepts such as variables, loops, functions, and data structures. Real-world healthcare scenarios, including data processing, automation, and simple analytics, will be used to reinforce learning. By the end of the course, students will be able to write basic Python scripts and apply them to common healthcare challenges.
learning models.
Key Skills
- Supervised Learning Fundamentals (Classification & Regression)
- Python for Machine Learning (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn)
- Key ML Algorithms (Linear Regression, Decision Trees, SVM, k-NN)
- Model Evaluation & Metrics (Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score)
- Data Preprocessing & Feature Engineering
- Hyperparameter Tuning & Model Optimization
Course Outline
Introduction to Supervised Machine Learning in Python
Machine Learning Concepts
Lessons Objective
- Understanding Supervised Learning (Classification & Regression)
- Model Training & Evaluation
- Overfitting & Underfitting
Python & ML Libraries
Lessons Objective
- Working with Scikit-learn
- Data Handling with Pandas & NumPy
- Data Visualization using Matplotlib & Seaborn
Supervised Learning Algorithms
Lessons Objective
- Linear Regression
- Decision Trees
- Support Vector Machines (SVM)
- k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN)
- Logistic Regression
Model Evaluation & Optimization
Lessons Objective
- Performance Metrics (Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-Score)
- Train-Test Split & Cross-Validation
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Feature Selection & Engineering
Projects in this course
In this project, you will apply supervised machine learning techniques to predict customer churn for a telecom company. Using a real-world dataset, you will:
- Preprocess the data (handling missing values, encoding categorical features)
- Train and evaluate models like Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, and k-NN
- Compare model performance using metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score
- Optimize models through hyperparameter tuning
- Visualize insights with Matplotlib & Seaborn
By completing this project, you will gain hands-on experience in classification problems, model evaluation, and real-world data handling.
Course Duration:
10 Hours
Earned Skills:
Python, Problem Solving, Supervised Learning Algorithms
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