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Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python

Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python

By : Joseph Babcock
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Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python

Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python

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By: Joseph Babcock

Overview of this book

The volume, diversity, and speed of data available has never been greater. Powerful machine learning methods can unlock the value in this information by finding complex relationships and unanticipated trends. Using the Python programming language, analysts can use these sophisticated methods to build scalable analytic applications to deliver insights that are of tremendous value to their organizations. In Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python, you will learn the process of turning raw data into powerful insights. Through case studies and code examples using popular open-source Python libraries, this book illustrates the complete development process for analytic applications and how to quickly apply these methods to your own data to create robust and scalable prediction services. Covering a wide range of algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, as well as cutting-edge techniques such as deep learning, this book illustrates not only how these methods work, but how to implement them in practice. You will learn to choose the right approach for your problem and how to develop engaging visualizations to bring the insights of predictive modeling to life
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Working with geospatial data

For our last case study, let us explore the analysis of geospatial data using an extension to the Pandas library, GeoPandas. You will need to have GeoPandas installed in your IPython environment to follow this example. If it is not already installed, you can add it using easy_install or pip.

Loading geospatial data

In addition to our other dependencies, we will import the GeoPandas library using the command:

>>> import GeoPandas as geo.

We load dataset for this example, the coordinates of countries in Africa ("Africa." Maplibrary.org. Web. 02 May 2016. http://www.mapmakerdata.co.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/library/stacks/Africa/) which are contained in a shape (.shp) file as before into a GeoDataFrame, an extension of the Pandas DataFrame, using:

>>> africa_map = geo.GeoDataFrame.from_file('Africa_SHP/Africa.shp')

Examining the first few lines using head():

Loading geospatial data

We can see that the data consists of identifier columns, along...

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