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Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization, Second Edition

By : Cyrille Rossant
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Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization, Second Edition

By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Python is a user-friendly and powerful programming language. IPython offers a convenient interface to the language and its analysis libraries, while the Jupyter Notebook is a rich environment well-adapted to data science and visualization. Together, these open source tools are widely used by beginners and experts around the world, and in a huge variety of fields and endeavors. This book is a beginner-friendly guide to the Python data analysis platform. After an introduction to the Python language, IPython, and the Jupyter Notebook, you will learn how to analyze and visualize data on real-world examples, how to create graphical user interfaces for image processing in the Notebook, and how to perform fast numerical computations for scientific simulations with NumPy, Numba, Cython, and ipyparallel. By the end of this book, you will be able to perform in-depth analyses of all sorts of data.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered several customization options of IPython and the Jupyter Notebook. The IPython Cookbook contains more details, notably on how to create entirely custom widgets in the Notebook.

With this book, you've learned the fundamentals of the platform: Python, IPython, and the Jupyter Notebook. You've seen how to analyze real-world datasets with pandas and NumPy, and how to create plots with matplotlib and seaborn. Finally, you've sampled a wide-range of the scientific Python ecosystem, including high-performance computing, interactive visualization, and interactive data analysis.

The IPython Cookbook, Packt Publishing, is the sequel of this book. In more than 500 pages and 100 recipes, it explores the topics addressed in this book in much greater detail. Also, it contains a wide range of examples illustrating advanced analyses in applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, signal processing, networks, and many other domains.