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NumPy Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ivan Idris
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NumPy Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

<p>NumPy has the ability to give you speed and high productivity. High performance calculations can be done easily with clean and efficient code, and it allows you to execute complex algebraic and mathematical computations in no time.</p> <p>This book will give you a solid foundation in NumPy arrays and universal functions. Starting with the installation and configuration of IPython, you'll learn about advanced indexing and array concepts along with commonly used yet effective functions. You will then cover practical concepts such as image processing, special arrays, and universal functions. You will also learn about plotting with Matplotlib and the related SciPy project with the help of examples. At the end of the book, you will study how to explore atmospheric pressure and its related techniques. By the time you finish this book, you'll be able to write clean and fast code with NumPy.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
NumPy Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Data analysis is one of the most important use cases of NumPy. Depending on our goals, we can distinguish between many phases and types of data analysis. In this chapter, we will talk about exploratory and predictive data analysis. Exploratory data analysis probes the data for clues. At this stage, we are probably unfamiliar with the dataset. Predictive analysis tries to predict something about the data using a model.

The data comes from the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI. It is specifically about the weather station at De Bilt, where the KNMI headquarters is located. In these recipes, we will inspect atmospheric pressure and maximum visibility (see http://www.knmi.nl/climatology/daily_data/download.html).

I modified and converted the textual data from the KNMI to the NumPy-specific .npy format, saved as a 40996 x 5 array. The array contains daily values for five variables:

  • The date in the YYYYMMDD format

  • The average daily atmospheric pressure

  • The highest daily atmospheric...