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Python Data Analysis Cookbook

Python Data Analysis Cookbook

By : Ivan Idris
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Python Data Analysis Cookbook

Python Data Analysis Cookbook

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By: Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

Data analysis is a rapidly evolving field and Python is a multi-paradigm programming language suitable for object-oriented application development and functional design patterns. As Python offers a range of tools and libraries for all purposes, it has slowly evolved as the primary language for data science, including topics on: data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Python Data Analysis Cookbook focuses on reproducibility and creating production-ready systems. You will start with recipes that set the foundation for data analysis with libraries such as matplotlib, NumPy, and pandas. You will learn to create visualizations by choosing color maps and palettes then dive into statistical data analysis using distribution algorithms and correlations. You’ll then help you find your way around different data and numerical problems, get to grips with Spark and HDFS, and then set up migration scripts for web mining. In this book, you will dive deeper into recipes on spectral analysis, smoothing, and bootstrapping methods. Moving on, you will learn to rank stocks and check market efficiency, then work with metrics and clusters. You will achieve parallelism to improve system performance by using multiple threads and speeding up your code. By the end of the book, you will be capable of handling various data analysis techniques in Python and devising solutions for problem scenarios.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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A. Glossary
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Index

Introduction

Humans have communicated through language for thousands of years. Handwritten texts have been around for ages, the Gutenberg press was of course a huge development, but now that we have computers, the Internet, and social media, things have definitely spiraled out of control.

This chapter will help you cope with the flood of textual and social media information. The main Python libraries we will use are NLTK and NetworkX. You have to really appreciate how many features can be found in these libraries. Install NLTK with either pip or conda as follows:

$ conda/pip install nltk 

The code was tested with NLTK 3.0.2. If you need to download corpora, follow the instructions given at http://www.nltk.org/data.html (retrieved November 2015).

Install NetworkX with either pip or conda, as follows:

$ conda/pip install networkx 

The code was tested with Network 1.9.1.

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