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Getting Started with Python Data Analysis

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Getting Started with Python Data Analysis

Overview of this book

Data analysis is the process of applying logical and analytical reasoning to study each component of data. Python is a multi-domain, high-level, programming language. It’s often used as a scripting language because of its forgiving syntax and operability with a wide variety of different eco-systems. Python has powerful standard libraries or toolkits such as Pylearn2 and Hebel, which offers a fast, reliable, cross-platform environment for data analysis. With this book, we will get you started with Python data analysis and show you what its advantages are. The book starts by introducing the principles of data analysis and supported libraries, along with NumPy basics for statistic and data processing. Next it provides an overview of the Pandas package and uses its powerful features to solve data processing problems. Moving on, the book takes you through a brief overview of the Matplotlib API and some common plotting functions for DataFrame such as plot. Next, it will teach you to manipulate the time and data structure, and load and store data in a file or database using Python packages. The book will also teach you how to apply powerful packages in Python to process raw data into pure and helpful data using examples. Finally, the book gives you a brief overview of machine learning algorithms, that is, applying data analysis results to make decisions or build helpful products, such as recommendations and predictions using scikit-learn.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with Python Data Analysis
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The scikit-learn modules for different models


The scikit-learn library is organized into submodules. Each submodule contains algorithms and helper methods for a certain class of machine learning models and approaches.

Here is a sample of those submodules, including some example models:

Submodule

Description

Example models

cluster

This is the unsupervised clustering

KMeans and Ward

decomposition

This is the dimensionality reduction

PCA and NMF

ensemble

This involves ensemble-based methods

AdaBoostClassifier,

AdaBoostRegressor,

RandomForestClassifier,

RandomForestRegressor

lda

This stands for latent discriminant analysis

LDA

linear_model

This is the generalized linear model

LinearRegression, LogisticRegression,

Lasso and Perceptron

mixture

This is the mixture model

GMM and VBGMM

naive_bayes

This involves supervised learning based on Bayes' theorem

BaseNB and BernoulliNB, GaussianNB

neighbors

These are k-nearest neighbors

KNeighborsClassifier, KNeighborsRegressor...