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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


We looked over the borders of Python in this chapter. Outside the Python ecosystem, programming languages such as R, C, Java, and Fortran are fairly popular. We looked at libraries that provide glue to connect Python with external code, rpy2 for R, SWIG and Boost for C, JPype for Java, and f2py for Fortran. Cloud computing aims to deliver computing power as a utility over the Internet. A brief overview of PythonAnywhere--a Cloud computing services specialized in Python was also given.

The next chapter, Chapter 12, Performance Tuning, Profiling, and Concurrency, gives hints on improving performance. Typically, we can speed up Python code by optimizing our code using parallelization or rewriting parts of our code in C. We will also discuss several profiling tools and concurrency APIs.