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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

By : Umit Mert Cakmak, Tiago Antao, Mert Cuhadaroglu
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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

By: Umit Mert Cakmak, Tiago Antao, Mert Cuhadaroglu

Overview of this book

NumPy is one of the most important scientific computing libraries available for Python. Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy teaches you how to achieve expert level competency to perform complex operations, with in-depth coverage of advanced concepts. Beginning with NumPy's arrays and functions, you will familiarize yourself with linear algebra concepts to perform vector and matrix math operations. You will thoroughly understand and practice data processing, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and predictive modeling. You will then move on to working on practical examples which will teach you how to use NumPy statistics in order to explore US housing data and develop a predictive model using simple and multiple linear regression techniques. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you will explore unsupervised learning and clustering algorithms, followed by understanding how to write better NumPy code while keeping advanced considerations in mind. The book also demonstrates the use of different high-performance numerical computing libraries and their relationship with NumPy. You will study how to benchmark the performance of different configurations and choose the best for your system. By the end of this book, you will have become an expert in handling and performing complex data manipulations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Box plots

Another important visual in exploratory data analysis is the box plot, also known as the box-and-whisker plot. It's built based on the five-number summary, which is the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values. In a standard box plot, these values are represented as follows:

It's a very convenient way of comparing several distributions. In general, the whiskers of the plot generally extend to the extreme points. Alternatively, you can cut them with the 1.5 interquartile range. Let's check our CRIM and RM features:

In [60]: %matplotlib notebook
%matplotlib notebook
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy import stats
samples = dataset.data
fig, (ax1,ax2) = plt.subplots(1,2, figsize =(8,3))
axs = [ax1, ax2]
list_features = ['CRIM', 'RM']
ax1...