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#Introduction

This workshop is a very quick taste of the [**Python**](https://www.python.org/) programing language. Python is a simple, almost beautiful, language that can do some fantastic things (and makes easy things easy).

It can be used for statistical analysis, just like R/RStudio, and lots more.  We'll show how to take the yeast data from Workshop 1, and do similar analyses in **Python**. It's going to be fun - and it's not assessed! 


#How it's going to work

We'll do this using an online 'notebook' called **Google Colab** that works in your web browser, so **you don't need to install any software**. Here are the tools we'll use:

* I made a short video intro to get you started. It's not *Jacksepticeye* standard, but I did my best! Watch the video first.

* [Here is the link](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1K2zw6-QqP-PhFIvkTZaZbhIvh_0OlTpF) to the Google Colab notebook explainng the workshop. You'll need to be signed in to your York Google account to use this. Choose the **Open with Google Colaboratory** option to open it.

* **To ask questions during the workshop**, join the Google Meet via [this link](http://meet.google.com/mzs-qfaf-gwq).

* To ask questions at any other time, please use the Discission Board on the VLE.

**Note:** A laptop/PC is best. 


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**You'll need to be signed into the VLE to see this video**.

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[**click here**](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1K2zw6-QqP-PhFIvkTZaZbhIvh_0OlTpF) to jump into to the Google Colab notebook and **start workshop 6**.

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