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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

NumPy numerical types


Python has an integer type, a float type, and complex type; nonetheless, this is not sufficient for scientific calculations. In practice, we still demand more data types with varying precisions and, consequently, different storage sizes of the type. For this reason, NumPy has many more data types. The bulk of the NumPy mathematical types end with a number. This number designates the count of bits related to the type. The following table (adapted from the NumPy user guide) presents an overview of NumPy numerical types:

Type

Description

bool

Boolean (True or False) stored as a bit

inti

Platform integer (normally either int32 or int64)

int8

Byte (-128 to 127)

int16

Integer (-32768 to 32767)

int32

Integer (-2 ** 31 to 2 ** 31 -1)

int64

Integer (-2 ** 63 to 2 ** 63 -1)

uint8

Unsigned integer (0 to 255)

uint16

Unsigned integer (0 to 65535)

uint32

Unsigned integer (0 to 2 ** 32 - 1)

uint64

Unsigned integer (0 to 2 ** 64 - 1)

float16...