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IPython Notebook Essentials

IPython Notebook Essentials

By : Martins
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IPython Notebook Essentials

IPython Notebook Essentials

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By: Martins
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Overview of this book

If you are a professional, student, or educator who wants to learn to use IPython Notebook as a tool for technical and scientific computing, visualization, and data analysis, this is the book for you. This book will prove valuable for anyone that needs to do computations in an agile environment.
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. A Tour of the IPython Notebook
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1. A Tour of the IPython Notebook
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Getting started with Anaconda or Wakari
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Running the notebook
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Example – the coffee cooling problem
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Exercises
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Summary
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2. The Notebook Interface
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2. The Notebook Interface
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Editing and navigating a notebook
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IPython magics
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Interacting with the operating system
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Running scripts, loading data, and saving data
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The rich display system
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3. Graphics with matplotlib
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3. Graphics with matplotlib
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The plot function
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Three-dimensional plots
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Animations
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Summary
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4. Handling Data with pandas
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4. Handling Data with pandas
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The Series class
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The DataFrame class
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Computational and graphics tools
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An example with a realistic dataset
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5. Advanced Computing with SciPy, Numba, and NumbaPro
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5. Advanced Computing with SciPy, Numba, and NumbaPro
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Overview of SciPy
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Advanced mathematical algorithms with SciPy
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Accelerating computations with Numba and NumbaPro
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Summary
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A. IPython Notebook Reference Card
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Starting the notebook
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Importing modules
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Getting help
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B. A Brief Review of Python
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Introduction
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Basic types, expressions, and variables and their assignment
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Sequence types
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Dictionaries
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Control structures
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Summary
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C. NumPy Arrays
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Introduction
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Array creation and member access
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Indexing and Slicing
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Index
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Index

Overview of SciPy

SciPy is an extensive library for applied mathematics and scientific computation. The following is the complete list of all the modules available in the library:

Module

Functionality

cluster

Clustering algorithms

constants

Physical and mathematical constants

fftpack

Fast Fourier Transform

integrate

Integration and ordinary differential equations

interpolate

Interpolation and splines

io

Input and output

linalg

Linear algebra

ndimage

Image processing

odr

Orthogonal distance regression

optimize

Optimization and root-finding

signal

Signal processing

sparse

Sparse matrices

spatial

Spatial data structures

special

Special functions

stats

Statistical distributions

weave

C/C++ integration

The standard way to import SciPy modules in scripts is using the following command line:

from scipy import signal

Then, individual functions can be called with the usual module reference syntax, as follows:

signal.correlate(…)...
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