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Jupyter for Data Science

By : Dan Toomey
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Jupyter for Data Science

By: Dan Toomey

Overview of this book

Jupyter Notebook is a web-based environment that enables interactive computing in notebook documents. It allows you to create documents that contain live code, equations, and visualizations. This book is a comprehensive guide to getting started with data science using the popular Jupyter notebook. If you are familiar with Jupyter notebook and want to learn how to use its capabilities to perform various data science tasks, this is the book for you! From data exploration to visualization, this book will take you through every step of the way in implementing an effective data science pipeline using Jupyter. You will also see how you can utilize Jupyter's features to share your documents and codes with your colleagues. The book also explains how Python 3, R, and Julia can be integrated with Jupyter for various data science tasks. By the end of this book, you will comfortably leverage the power of Jupyter to perform various tasks in data science successfully.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Jupyter concepts


Jupyter is organized around a few basic concepts:

  • Notebook: A collection of statements (in a language). For example, this could be a complete R script that loads data, analyzes it, produces a graph, and records results elsewhere.
  • Cell: the lowest granular piece of a Jupyter Notebook that can be worked with:
    • Current Cell: The current cell being edited or the one(s) selected
  • Kernel: each notebook is associated with a specific language implementation. The part of Jupyter which processes the specific language involved is called a kernel.