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Python Data Science Essentials - Second Edition

By : Luca Massaron, Alberto Boschetti
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Python Data Science Essentials - Second Edition

By: Luca Massaron, Alberto Boschetti

Overview of this book

Fully expanded and upgraded, the second edition of Python Data Science Essentials takes you through all you need to know to suceed in data science using Python. Get modern insight into the core of Python data, including the latest versions of Jupyter notebooks, NumPy, pandas and scikit-learn. Look beyond the fundamentals with beautiful data visualizations with Seaborn and ggplot, web development with Bottle, and even the new frontiers of deep learning with Theano and TensorFlow. Dive into building your essential Python 3.5 data science toolbox, using a single-source approach that will allow to to work with Python 2.7 as well. Get to grips fast with data munging and preprocessing, and all the techniques you need to load, analyse, and process your data. Finally, get a complete overview of principal machine learning algorithms, graph analysis techniques, and all the visualization and deployment instruments that make it easier to present your results to an audience of both data science experts and business users.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Python Data Science Essentials - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Wrapping everything in a pipeline


As a concluding topic, we will discuss how to wrap together the operations of transformation and selection we have seen so far, into a single command, a pipeline that will take your data from source to your machine learning algorithm.

Wrapping all your data operations into a single command offers some advantages:

  • Your code becomes clear and more logically constructed because pipelines force you to rely on functions for your operations (each step a function)

  • You treat the test data in the same exact way as your train data without code repetitions or possibility of any mistake in the process

  • You can easily grid-search the best parameters on all the data pipelines you devised, not just on the machine learning hyperparameters

We distinguish between two kinds of wrappers depending on the data flow you need to build: serial or parallel.

Serial processing means that your transformation steps are dependent one on the other, and consequently they have to be executed in...