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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

The data science process


Although every data science project is different, for our illustrative purposes, we can partition an ideal data science project into a series of reduced and simplified phases.

The process starts by obtaining data (a phase know as data ingestion or data acquisition), and as such implies a series of possible alternatives, from simply uploading data to assembling it from RDBMS or NoSQL repositories, or synthetically generating it or scraping it from the web APIs or HTML pages.

Especially when faced with novel challenges, uploading data can reveal itself as a critical part of a data scientist's work. Your data can arrive from multiple sources: databases, CSV or Excel files, raw HTML, images, sound recordings, APIs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface) providing JSON files, and so on. Given the wide range of alternatives, we will just briefly touch upon this aspect by offering the basic tools to get your data (even if it is too big) into your...