GCI World 2026 September Session3

Hello everyone. I hope you remember me

from the first session. I'm Erin, a

member of Matsoy Wasawa Labry. [music]

Since we are on the third session before

we start, I would like to ask you how

have you guys been? Have you been

enjoying the last two lectures? [music]

I know you some of you weren't able to

join the first lecture. Some of you just

joined. Um and you might be wondering,

can I really complete this course? Do I

have enough time [music] to um complete

all the assignment attendance? But don't

worry. Uh I would like to share a few

tips to [music] complete. So um as you

may already know attendance form and

homework submission [music] is available

for plenty of time for you to finish. Um

so um you [music] please um continue

from this session and um I hope you will

[music] make it to the um the deadline

and then if you have any question about

what should I do next [music] where can

I find this information it's available

on student guide so it should be the

first place to take a look at it has

everything you need and if you're aren't

[music] unable to find it your uh

colleagues your friends and our [music]

um GCA world member staff will be more

than happy to help you while answering

that question. So and without further

ado, I would like to introduce [music]

about uh session three. Session three

will be cleaning data using pandas.

[music] And you do you know who the

instructor is going to be? It's Aki. Uh

I hope you still remember him from the

past sessions. So [music] it might it's

going to be a technical session. So um

for those who are new to programming and

AI, you might feel a bit difficult, but

don't worry. We're here to support you

through office hour [music] learning

stack learning community and then um

through our sessions. So, if you have

any questions, [music] please feel free

to ask us. And good luck with the third

session. I hope you will have a a fun

[music] session. And here's a beautiful

picture of Yasuda Auditorium.

All right. So, uh welcome back to GCA

World. Um hello again. My name is

Akihiro. Um I hope you guys remember me

from session one. Um and today is our

third session. So let's get right into

it. Um before I jump into today's

lecture, I would like to make a couple

announcements. Um first things um I

think this was also um announced last

week as well. Um these may so so these

four tools are the tools that we will be

using throughout the courses throughout

this course um omni campus to for your

course registration and sub submitting

your assignment. The slack where we will

be posting um announcements and also for

you guys to um ask questions um and help

each other. um the student guide where

all the information regarding the

lecture is contained and also the Google

drive where all the lecture materials,

the slides, the notebooks and

assignments are going to be uploaded. So

these four are the tools um that we will

be using throughout this entire um

lecture series. So please bookmark

bookmark them now if you haven't done so

already. Um you can either scan the QR

code from here or you can um also we

also have um provide the links in the

Slack channel as well. So you can also

check that out.

Right. Um second thing um this has been

also announced um couple times as well

but um just a reminder that we do not

have any official WhatsApp group um from

our side. So any WhatsApp group that you

may see on Slack, these are um um a

WhatsApp group um that are created by

the the participants. So these are um

just voluntary ones um and we are not

responsible for any problems that may

occur in those WhatsApp groups. So um

when you're you are free to join them,

but it is completely up to you. Um and

we don't and we and we do not take any

responsibility.

Um third thing um if you haven't I I

hope most of you have done this already

but um if you haven't please change your

slack display name so that it matches

your Omni campus name. Um you can see

your Omni campus name um by going to

here um edu.omnicamp.

us-enp

profofile. Um, and then you'll be able

to see um like account name um and then

your um omni campus name. Um what you

want to do is you want to copy this um

account name and then go to slack um and

then you click edit the profile and set

your display name so that it matches

your account name. Um this is for us to

um make sure that um we can match who

you are on Slack with um your your

assignments. So um so please make sure

to um have this matched. Um and just

make sure that um if you do not set this

to match um you may lose your results.

Um um yeah. So yeah, please make sure um

and and please set them as soon as

possible if you haven't done so already.

Um next thing um regarding the office

hours um as you may have already noticed

we have many u regular office hours um

throughout the week. Um and we h and we

have them um set in different time of

the day so that um regardless of your

time zone where you are located um you

can join um whichever one you um

whichever one you want to you can join.

Um this is the rough um this is the

roughly the calendar that we have. So we

have the lecture um weekly on the

Thursdays but we have many um office

hours on different t different days. So,

make sure to check them out. Um the the

office hours um are going to be

announced on the Slack channel as well.

So, please stay tuned for that. Um just

to make sure that these are um not

mandatory. So it's you know you can it's

um if you want to join you can join them

um and you can um talk with other

participants. Um you can ask the TAs um

yeah and

I I highly um recommend the office

hours. Um

most of the TAs are um past graduates of

the GCI course. So if you have any

questions you know and you know you can

ask them like what's the tip to

completing this course. Um yeah so yeah

I highly recommend these office hours um

and use it for to to maximize your um

GCI experience.

Um also um there are a couple office

special office hours I would say um that

are umo that are going to be held by

past outstanding students of the GCI

world. Um

so we have we have couple TAs um from

abroad u from different countries um

including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia,

Malaysia, Colombia and Zimbabwe. Um and

they're going to be um um hosting their

um office hours um in the upcoming

weeks. So um make sure to stay tuned for

this. Um and you know since they are um

you know the the the outstanding

students in the past GCI world so you

know um if you get the chance um I you

know you can even ask you know how how

like what's the tip to becoming um an

outstanding student and also ask about

their experience um when they were um

doing the GCI world or after they

completed the GCI world and so on. Um so

and they're going to be presenting and

doing the office hours not only in

English but also we we're um planning to

do um have them um do the office hours

in their local languages as well. So um

it's this is your chance to ask in your

own um in your native languages um and

um familiarize yourself with the GC

world and also um the the content. Yeah.

Um the all the self introduction slides

um can be accessed from this slide um

which I think is this is also on the

student guide um I'll I'll show you

later um yeah so make sure to check them

out um see if there's anyone with like a

familiar with a similar background um so

right um one new announcement sort of

say um so this is regarding the

assignment deadlines uh we have been um

saying that the attendance surveys and

the homeworks these are due two weeks