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Introduction

This workshop is a very quick taste of the Python 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 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.

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

Note: A laptop/PC is best.

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



click here to jump into to the Google Colab notebook and start workshop 6.