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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

By : Umit Mert Cakmak, Tiago Antao, Mert Cuhadaroglu
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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

By: Umit Mert Cakmak, Tiago Antao, Mert Cuhadaroglu

Overview of this book

NumPy is one of the most important scientific computing libraries available for Python. Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy teaches you how to achieve expert level competency to perform complex operations, with in-depth coverage of advanced concepts. Beginning with NumPy's arrays and functions, you will familiarize yourself with linear algebra concepts to perform vector and matrix math operations. You will thoroughly understand and practice data processing, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and predictive modeling. You will then move on to working on practical examples which will teach you how to use NumPy statistics in order to explore US housing data and develop a predictive model using simple and multiple linear regression techniques. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you will explore unsupervised learning and clustering algorithms, followed by understanding how to write better NumPy code while keeping advanced considerations in mind. The book also demonstrates the use of different high-performance numerical computing libraries and their relationship with NumPy. You will study how to benchmark the performance of different configurations and choose the best for your system. By the end of this book, you will have become an expert in handling and performing complex data manipulations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you explored the performance of different configurations when you perform compute-intensive linear algebra operations.

Benchmarking is a serious business, and you at least have the basic skills now to run benchmarks. The material you have studied in this chapter is nowhere near complete, but it gave you an idea where to start, and you can definitely improve on many things.

One thing you can look at is how performance metrics behave when you increase the size of vectors and matrices gradually. Ideally, you'll need more powerful hardware, but t2.micro instances are free in most cases or very cheap to provision.

As you will need to handle more compute-intensive workloads, it's important to understand what your options are, and which one will give you the best performance. You can run these kinds of simple experiment to at least have an idea about...