Workshop 2 - Basic data analysis and visualization

Workshop goal

To learn how to work with tabular data in Python, including reading, manipulating, and visualizing the data.

Episodes and questions

Episode title	Topics covered	Questions answered
2.1 Environments and Libraries	virtual environments, installing libraries	How do I create a virtual environment? How do I install the Python libraries that I want to work with?
2.2 Reading and Manipulating Tabular Data	libraries, paths, reading data, manipulating data, simple analysis (e.g., calculating means)	What are libraries? How do I use functions from libraries? How do I define a path to a data file relative to my code file? How can I read, manipulate, and analyze tabular data files in Python?
2.3 Visualizing Tabular Data	basic plotting, subplots, customizing plots	What are libraries? How do I use functions from libraries? How do I define a path to a data file relative to my code file? How can I read, manipulate, and analyze tabular data files in Python?