My Python Skills
A demo of my Python code for using k-means clustering to determine the color groups in an image of an iris.
What is Python?
"Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics."
Python is a general-purpose programming language general-purpose programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the 1990s, and has quickly become one of the most popular programming languages in the world.
Python is great for:
- Beginners to coding (but not only beginners!)
- Backend web development
- Data analytics
- Mathematical and scientific projects
- Projects that use one of Python’s many libraries, including packages for data analytics, image processing, machine learning, and more!
How do I know Python?
I originally taught myself the basics of Python when I learned that an engineering course taught in MATLAB I had taken replaced the introductory computer science course taught in Python at my university. I didn’t want to be missing Python skills, so I self-taught the basics using Eric Matthes’s Python Crash Course. Later, I learned a great deal more about Python in my computation of linear algebra class, where I used NumPy, and my Everything Data class, where I learned Pandas, machine learning methods, and much more using the Python language.
What can I do with Python?
I can use Python to…
- Write and use functions that accept a variable input and return a desired output
- Use NumPy to manipulate and calculate matrices
- Use Pandas for data manipulation and analysis
- Use Matplotlib to create, manipulate, and print plots and images
- Use OpenCV for image analysis functions
- Use TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch and Scikit-learn for machine learning applications
A sample of my work in Python can be seen in the video above, in which I use k-means clustering to determine the dominant color groups in an image of an iris.