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SciPy Recipes

By : V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos
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SciPy Recipes

By: V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

With the SciPy Stack, you get the power to effectively process, manipulate, and visualize your data using the popular Python language. Utilizing SciPy correctly can sometimes be a very tricky proposition. This book provides the right techniques so you can use SciPy to perform different data science tasks with ease. This book includes hands-on recipes for using the different components of the SciPy Stack such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and pandas, among others. You will use these libraries to solve real-world problems in linear algebra, numerical analysis, data visualization, and much more. The recipes included in the book will ensure you get a practical understanding not only of how a particular feature in SciPy Stack works, but also of its application to real-world problems. The independent nature of the recipes also ensure that you can pick up any one and learn about a particular feature of SciPy without reading through the other recipes, thus making the book a very handy and useful guide.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Computing pairwise distances from a dataset, using different distance metrics

This section represents the pairwise distances from a dataset and some if its applications.

How to do it…

To do this, we need to consider the following points:

  • It is imperative to have a good set of different distance functions for any of the algorithms that perform the search and SciPy has, for this purpose, a huge collection of optimally coded functions in the distance submodule of the scipy.spatial module.
  • The list is long. Besides Euclidean, squared Euclidean, or standardized Euclidean, we have many more—Bray-Curtis, Canberra, Chebyshev, Manhattan, correlation distance, cosine distance, dice dissimilarity, Hamming, Jaccard-Needham...