Course
- Code and title: MGS 3001, Python Programming for Business
- Level: Undergraduate
- Institution: College of Business and Public Management, Wenzhou-Kean University
Terms taught
Spring & Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
What students learn
Programming sits at the core of analytics work because it is how data gets cleaned, prepared, and mined. In this course students learn fundamental programming concepts and Python syntax, and become familiar with the built-in modules, libraries, and functions used for discovering patterns in data. By the end they can use Python to gather and analyze data and to communicate what they found.
Topics
From the Spring 2023 syllabus:
- Introduction to management and data analysis
- Python programming basics
- Data manipulation and cleaning with Python
- Data visualization with Python
- Descriptive and inferential statistics with Python
- Predictive modeling with Python
- Data communication and presentation with Python
The course combines lectures, hands-on assignments, quizzes, and exams. The textbook is Gaddis, Starting Out with Python (4th ed.).
Tools
Python