Understanding date and time in Python to model time series data

Talk starts at 2:04

Abstract:

This talk will review the common date and time formats (ISO 8601, Epoch) and how python standard library and packages such as pandas and numpy handle the different date and time formats, time zones and daylight savings time. The talk will be presented using Jupyter Notebook.

Speaker:

Srividya Iyer is the Co-Founder and CEO at CANIV TECH INC. She develops predictive models to understand network failures and security vulnerabilities using python and related packages (pandas, numpy, scipy and scikit-learn). She also likes to teach and has taught Linux, Networking, Data analytics and Python classes.

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