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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

Appendix C. Online Resources

The following is a list of links to documentation, forums, articles, and other information:

The Apache Cassandra databasehttp://cassandra.apache.org

Beautiful Soup: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

The HDF Group website: https://www.hdfgroup.org/

A gallery of interesting IPython notebooks: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks

The Graphviz open source graph visualization softwarehttp://graphviz.org/

The IPython websitehttp://ipython.org/

The Jupyter website: http://jupyter.org/

Matplotlib (a Python plotting library)http://matplotlib.org/

MongoDB (an open source document database)http://www.mongodb.org

The mpi4py docshttp://mpi4py.scipy.org/docs/usrman/index.html

Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)http://www.nltk.org/

NumPy and SciPy documentationhttp://docs.scipy.org/doc/

NumPy and SciPy mailing listshttp://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists

Open MPI (a high performance message passing library)http://www.open-mpi.org

Packt Publishing help and supporthttp://www.packtpub.com/support

The pandas home pagehttp://pandas.pydata.org

Python performance tipshttps://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips

Redis (an open source, key-value store)http://redis.io/

Scikit-learn (machine learning with Python)http://scikit-learn.org/stable/

Scikit-learn performance tipshttp://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/performance.html

SciPy performance tipshttp://wiki.scipy.org/PerformanceTips

SQLAlchemy (the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper): http://www.sqlalchemy.org

The Toolz utility functions documentationhttp://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Plotly matplotlib figure converter: https://plot.ly/matplotlib/getting-started/

Using Plotly with Python offline: https://plot.ly/python/offline/

Saving static images (PNG, PDF, etc): https://plot.ly/python/static-image-export/

Creating HTML or PDF reports in Python: https://plot.ly/python/#report-generation

Security and Plotly's server at your company: https://plot.ly/products/on-premise/

Creating dashboards with Plotly and Python: https://plot.ly/python/dashboard/

Connecting to databases: https://plot.ly/python/#databases

Plotly and IPython / Jupyter notebook: https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/