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Python Data Analysis - Second Edition

By : Ivan Idris
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Python Data Analysis - Second Edition

By: Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

Data analysis techniques generate useful insights from small and large volumes of data. Python, with its strong set of libraries, has become a popular platform to conduct various data analysis and predictive modeling tasks. With this book, you will learn how to process and manipulate data with Python for complex analysis and modeling. We learn data manipulations such as aggregating, concatenating, appending, cleaning, and handling missing values, with NumPy and Pandas. The book covers how to store and retrieve data from various data sources such as SQL and NoSQL, CSV fies, and HDF5. We learn how to visualize data using visualization libraries, along with advanced topics such as signal processing, time series, textual data analysis, machine learning, and social media analysis. The book covers a plethora of Python modules, such as matplotlib, statsmodels, scikit-learn, and NLTK. It also covers using Python with external environments such as R, Fortran, C/C++, and Boost libraries.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Python Data Analysis - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Key Concepts
Online Resources

Summary


In this chapter, we installed NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, IPython, and Jupyter Notebook, all of which we will be using in this book. We got a vector addition program working, and learned how NumPy offers superior performance. In addition, we explored the available documentation and online resources. We executed code to find the modules inside the libraries and loaded some sample datasets to draw some basic plots using Matplotlib.

In the next chapter, Chapter 2, NumPy Arrays, we will take a look under the hood of NumPy and explore some fundamental concepts, including arrays and data types.