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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

Summary


In this chapter, we focused on Pandas--a Python data analysis library. This was an introductory tutorial about the basic Pandas features and data structures. We saw how a great deal of the Pandas functionality mimics relational database tables, allowing us to query, aggregate, and manipulate data efficiently. NumPy and Pandas work well together and make it possible to perform basic statistical analysis. At this point, you might be tempted to think that Pandas is all we need for data analysis. However, there is more to data analysis than meets the eye.

Having picked up the fundamentals, it's time to proceed to data analysis with the commonly used functions in Chapter 4, Statistics and Linear Algebra. This includes the usage of staple statistical and numerical functions.

The reader is encouraged to read the books mentioned in the references section for exploring Pandas in further detail and depth.