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Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and Pandas

By : Curtis Miller
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Book Image

Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and Pandas

5 (1)
By: Curtis Miller

Overview of this book

Python, a multi-paradigm programming language, has become the language of choice for data scientists for visualization, data analysis, and machine learning. Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and Pandas starts by guiding you in setting up the right environment for data analysis with Python, along with helping you install the correct Python distribution. In addition to this, you will work with the Jupyter notebook and set up a database. Once you have covered Jupyter, you will dig deep into Python’s NumPy package, a powerful extension with advanced mathematical functions. You will then move on to creating NumPy arrays and employing different array methods and functions. You will explore Python’s pandas extension which will help you get to grips with data mining and learn to subset your data. Last but not the least you will grasp how to manage your datasets by sorting and ranking them. By the end of this book, you will have learned to index and group your data for sophisticated data analysis and manipulation.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we started off by selecting elements in an array explicitly. We looked into advanced indexing, and expanding arrays. We also covered some arithmetic and linear algebra with arrays. We discussed employing array methods and functions and vectorization with ufuncs. In the next chapter, we will begin learning about another influential package called pandas.