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Mastering Python for Data Science

By : Samir Madhavan
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Mastering Python for Data Science

By: Samir Madhavan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Python for Data Science
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Estimating the Likelihood of Events
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we got familiarized with the NumPy and pandas packages. We understood the different datatypes in pandas and how to utilize them. We learned how to perform data cleansing and manipulation, in which we handled missing values and performed string operations. This chapter gives us a foundation for data science and you can dive deeper into NumPy and pandas by clicking on the following links:

In the next chapter, we'll learn about the meaning of inferential statistics and what they do, and also how to make sense of the different concepts in inferential statistics.