Introduction

ITEC 4400/2160 Python Programming for Data Analysis,
Cengiz Günay

(License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Welcome

Meet your instructor

Instructor: Dr. Cengiz Gunay

Soft-Eng-Practicum Github Organization

Email: cgunay@ggc.edu

Office: Virtual and W-2117 (by appointment )

Phone: 678-951-9621 (also GroupMe)

About the instructor: Dr Cengiz Gunay

  • Went to computer science grad school on artificial intelligence neural networks
  • Then, worked as post-doctoral fellow at Emory Univ. on simulating models of biological neurons and large-scale biological data mining (e.g., SQL, neural nets, genetic algos)
  • Started teaching as visiting Faculty teaching at Emory Univ., Math & CS Dept.
  • At GGC, became IT faculty with Soft Dev focus and helped start a Data Science and Analytics major

Your turn!

  • Login/register on discussion and respond to the “Introductions” topic; create an inline resume

Also quickly introduce yourself now in class!

  • Name
  • Major/Year
  • What do you aim to achieve by taking this course
  • Something fun about yourself

Semester plan

See Schedule .

Syllabus and hands on work

  • Let’s look through the syllabus

Time to work on:

  1. Skills Survey on D2L
  2. Register for Discord and Piazza
  3. Respond to introductions post on Piazza
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