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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 6. Data Visualization

One of the first steps in data analysis is visualization. Even when looking at a table of values, we can form a mental image of what the data might look like when graphed. Data visualization involves the conception and analysis of the visual representation of information, signifying data that has been abstracted in some formal pattern, including properties or quantities for units of measurement of the data. Data visualization is closely associated with scientific visualization and statistical graphics. The Python matplotlib library is a well-known plotting library based on NumPy, which we will be using in this chapter. It has an object-oriented and a procedural Matlab-like API, which can be used in parallel. A gallery with matplotlib examples can be found at http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html is a cloud based service for data visualization. We shall briefly cover this service at the end of this chapter. The following is a list of topics that will be covered...