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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

Chapter 3. The Pandas Primer

The Pandas is named after panel data (an econometric term) and Python data analysis, and is a popular open source Python library. We shall learn about basic Pandas functionalities, data structures, and operations in this chapter.

The official Pandas documentation insists on naming the project pandas in all lowercase letters. The other convention the Pandas project insists on is the import pandas as pd import statement.

We will follow these conventions in this text.

In this chapter, we will install and explore Pandas. Then, we will acquaint ourselves with the two central Pandas data structures--DataFrame and Series. After that, you will learn how to perform SQL-like operations on the data contained in these data structures. Pandas has statistical utilities, including time-series routines, some of which will be demonstrated. The topics we will look at are as follows:

  • Installing and exploring Pandas

  • The Panda DataFrames

  • The Panda Series

  • Querying data in Pandas

  • Statistics...