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Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

By : Yuxing Yan, James Yan
Book Image

Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

By: Yuxing Yan, James Yan

Overview of this book

Anaconda is an open source platform that brings together the best tools for data science professionals with more than 100 popular packages supporting Python, Scala, and R languages. Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda gets you started with Anaconda and demonstrates how you can use it to perform data science operations in the real world. The book begins with setting up the environment for Anaconda platform in order to make it accessible for tools and frameworks such as Jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, Python, R, Julia, and more. You’ll walk through package manager Conda, through which you can automatically manage all packages including cross-language dependencies, and work across Linux, macOS, and Windows. You’ll explore all the essentials of data science and linear algebra to perform data science tasks using packages such as SciPy, contrastive, scikit-learn, Rattle, and Rmixmod. Once you’re accustomed to all this, you’ll start with operations in data science such as cleaning, sorting, and data classification. You’ll move on to learning how to perform tasks such as clustering, regression, prediction, and building machine learning models and optimizing them. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to visualize data using the packages available for Julia, Python, and R.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Packages for optimization in Python

From Chapter 6, Managing Packages, we know that to find all Python packages, we go to the website at https://pypi.python.org/. The following table shows a list of Python packages/models related to optimization after we type Optimization as the keyword:

Package
Wt*
Description

heuristic-optimization 0.4.3

7

Heuristics for derivative-free optimization

streams-optimization 1.0.0.dev3

7

A library for LHCb trigger/stripping streams optimization

adjointShapeOptimizationFlux 1.0

6

Python frontend of the adjointShapeOptimizationFoam

bayesian-optimization 0.6.0

6

Bayesian Optimization package

emzed_optimizations 0.6.0

6

particular optimizations for speeding up emzed

scikits.optimization 0.3

6

A python module for numerical optimization

asprin 3.0.2

5

Qualitative and quantitative optimization...