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Python Data Analysis

By : Ivan Idris

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Python Data Analysis

3.9 (16)

By: Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

This book is for programmers, scientists, and engineers who have knowledge of the Python language and know the basics of data science. It is for those who wish to learn different data analysis methods using Python and its libraries. This book contains all the basic ingredients you need to become an expert data analyst.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Getting Started with Python Libraries

1. Getting Started with Python Libraries

Software used in this book

Building NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and IPython from source

Installing with setuptools

NumPy arrays

A simple application

Using IPython as a shell

Reading manual pages

IPython notebooks

Where to find help and references

Summary

2. NumPy Arrays

2. NumPy Arrays

The NumPy array object

Creating a multidimensional array

Selecting NumPy array elements

NumPy numerical types

One-dimensional slicing and indexing

Manipulating array shapes

Creating array views and copies

Fancy indexing

Indexing with a list of locations

Indexing NumPy arrays with Booleans

Broadcasting NumPy arrays

Summary

3. Statistics and Linear Algebra

3. Statistics and Linear Algebra

NumPy and SciPy modules

Basic descriptive statistics with NumPy

Linear algebra with NumPy

Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors with NumPy

NumPy random numbers

Creating a NumPy-masked array

Summary

4. pandas Primer

4. pandas Primer

Installing and exploring pandas

pandas DataFrames

pandas Series

Querying data in pandas

Statistics with pandas DataFrames

Data aggregation with pandas DataFrames

Concatenating and appending DataFrames

Joining DataFrames

Handling missing values

Dealing with dates

Pivot tables

Remote data access

Summary

5. Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data

5. Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data

Writing CSV files with NumPy and pandas

Comparing the NumPy .npy binary format and pickling pandas DataFrames

Storing data with PyTables

Reading and writing pandas DataFrames to HDF5 stores

Reading and writing to Excel with pandas

Using REST web services and JSON

Reading and writing JSON with pandas

Parsing RSS and Atom feeds

Parsing HTML with Beautiful Soup

Summary

6. Data Visualization

6. Data Visualization

matplotlib subpackages

Basic matplotlib plots

Logarithmic plots

Scatter plots

Legends and annotations

Three-dimensional plots

Plotting in pandas

Lag plots

Autocorrelation plots

Plot.ly

Summary

7. Signal Processing and Time Series

7. Signal Processing and Time Series

statsmodels subpackages

Moving averages

Window functions

Defining cointegration

Autocorrelation

Autoregressive models

ARMA models

Generating periodic signals

Fourier analysis

Spectral analysis

Filtering

Summary

8. Working with Databases

8. Working with Databases

Lightweight access with sqlite3

Accessing databases from pandas

SQLAlchemy

Pony ORM

Dataset – databases for lazy people

PyMongo and MongoDB

Storing data in Redis

Apache Cassandra

Summary

9. Analyzing Textual Data and Social Media

9. Analyzing Textual Data and Social Media

Installing NLTK

Filtering out stopwords, names, and numbers

The bag-of-words model

Analyzing word frequencies

Naive Bayes classification

Sentiment analysis

Creating word clouds

Social network analysis

Summary

10. Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning

10. Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning

A tour of scikit-learn

Preprocessing

Classification with logistic regression

Classification with support vector machines

Regression with ElasticNetCV

Support vector regression

Clustering with affinity propagation

Mean Shift

Genetic algorithms

Neural networks

Decision trees

Summary

11. Environments Outside the Python Ecosystem and Cloud Computing

11. Environments Outside the Python Ecosystem and Cloud Computing

Exchanging information with MATLAB/Octave

Installing rpy2

Interfacing with R

Sending NumPy arrays to Java

Integrating SWIG and NumPy

Integrating Boost and Python

Using Fortran code through f2py

Setting up Google App Engine

Running programs on PythonAnywhere

Working with Wakari

Summary

12. Performance Tuning, Profiling, and Concurrency

12. Performance Tuning, Profiling, and Concurrency

Profiling the code

Installing Cython

Calling C code

Creating a process pool with multiprocessing

Speeding up embarrassingly parallel for loops with Joblib

Comparing Bottleneck to NumPy functions

Performing MapReduce with Jug

Installing MPI for Python

IPython Parallel

Summary

A. Key Concepts

A. Key Concepts

B. Useful Functions

B. Useful Functions

matplotlib

NumPy

pandas

Scikit-learn

SciPy

C. Online Resources

C. Online Resources

Index

Index

Calling C code

We can call C functions from Cython. The C string strlen() function is the equivalent of the Python len() function. Call this function from a Cython .pyx file by importing it as follows:

from libc.string cimport strlen

We can then call strlen() from somewhere else in the .pyx file. The .pyx file can contain any Python code. Have a look at the cython_module.pyx file in this book's code bundle:

from collections import defaultdict
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.corpus import names
from libc.string cimport strlen

sw = set(stopwords.words('english'))
all_names = set([name.lower() for name in names.words()])

def isStopWord(w):
    return w in sw or strlen(w) == 1 or not w.isalpha() or w in all_names

def filter_sw(words):
    return [w.lower() for w in words if not isStopWord(w.lower())]

def freq_dict(words):
    dd = defaultdict(int)

    for word in words:
        dd[word] += 1

    return dd

To compile this code we need a setup.py file with the following...

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