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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, you learned a lot about NumPy and SciPy subpackages. We looked at linear algebra, statistics, continuous and discrete distributions, masked arrays, and random numbers.

The next chapter, Chapter 5, Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data, will teach us skills that are essential, though they may not be considered data analysis by some people. We will use a broader definition that considers anything conceivably related to data analysis. Usually, when we analyze data, we don't have a whole team of assistants to help us with retrieving and storing the data. However, since these tasks are important for a smooth data analysis flow, we will describe these activities in detail.