NoCA Training – PYTHON Foundation for Actuaries – £100

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Date(s) - 15/03/2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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NoCA Training: Python Foundation for Actuaries, is being provided by Gaurang Mehta, FIA.

Gaurang is qualified actuary since 2013 and has worked in a freelance capacity for few of the large UK insurers. His experience is in the areas of risk calibrations, MA/VA and system design and implementation.

The course will comprise of 5 lessons of 1 hour each on:

1. 15th March 2023, 12pm – 1pm

2. 17th March 2023, 12pm – 1pm

3. 22nd March 2023, 12pm – 1pm

4. 24th March 2023, 12pm – 1pm and

5. 29th March 2023, 12pm – 1pm.

A NoCA Training Certificate will be provided on the completion of the course.

The Course will cover the following modules:

1. Basics of Python language
   1. History of Python and basic details on Python
   2. Installation of Anaconda Environment and familiarity with Spyder and Jupyter
   3. Basics of variables, string handling, flow controls, functions and loops
   4. Lists, Tuples and Dictionaries
2. Fundamentals of Python
   1. Input validation
   2. Conditionals and recursion
   3. Reading and writing files
   4. Debugging in python
   5. Introduction to Pandas
      • Viewing and selection of data and working with excel spreadsheets
      • Pivot tables and reshaping of the data
      • Time series and plotting using matplot library
   6. Introduction to web scrapping
3. Introduction to Numpy
   1. Basics of Numpy
   2. Vectors, matrices and multidimensional arrays
   3. Optimisation problems and a distribution fitting case study
4. Objected Oriented Programming in Python
   1. Introduction to classes and objects
   2. Inheritance
   3. Classes and methods, Classes and functions
   4. Creating basic power point slides using python
5. Introduction to Scikit Learn
   1. Basics of Scikit Learn
   2. Case study using Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
   3. Case study using ridge regression

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