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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 9. Analyzing Textual Data and Social Media

In the previous chapters, we focused on the analysis of structured data, mostly in tabular format. Along with structured data, plaintext is another predominant form of data available today. Text analysis includes the analysis of word frequency distributions, pattern recognition, tagging, link and association analysis, sentiment analysis, and visualization. One of the main libraries used for text analysis in Python is the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) library. NLTK comes with a collection of sample texts called corpora. The scikit-learn library also contains tools for text analysis that we will cover briefly in this chapter. A small example of network analysis will also be covered. The following topics will be discussed in this chapter:

  • Installing NLTK

  • About NLTK

  • Filtering out stopwords, names, and numbers

  • The bag-of-words model

  • Analyzing word frequencies

  • Naive Bayes classification

  • Sentiment analysis

  • Creating word clouds

  • Social network analysis