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Python Data Analysis - Second Edition

By : Ivan Idris
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Python Data Analysis - Second Edition

By: Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

Data analysis techniques generate useful insights from small and large volumes of data. Python, with its strong set of libraries, has become a popular platform to conduct various data analysis and predictive modeling tasks. With this book, you will learn how to process and manipulate data with Python for complex analysis and modeling. We learn data manipulations such as aggregating, concatenating, appending, cleaning, and handling missing values, with NumPy and Pandas. The book covers how to store and retrieve data from various data sources such as SQL and NoSQL, CSV fies, and HDF5. We learn how to visualize data using visualization libraries, along with advanced topics such as signal processing, time series, textual data analysis, machine learning, and social media analysis. The book covers a plethora of Python modules, such as matplotlib, statsmodels, scikit-learn, and NLTK. It also covers using Python with external environments such as R, Fortran, C/C++, and Boost libraries.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Python Data Analysis - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Key Concepts
Online Resources

Installing rpy2 package


The R programming language is popular among statisticians. It is written in C and Fortran and is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). R has support for modeling, statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, visualization, and clustering. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) and other repository websites offer thousands of R packages for various tasks.

Note

Download R from http://www.r-project.org/.

The rpy2 package facilitates interfacing with R from Python. Install rpy2 as follows with pip:

$ pip3 install rpy2

Note

If you already have rpy2 installed, follow the instructions on http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-dev/html/overview.html as upgrading is not a straightforward process.