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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

About the Reviewers

Joran Beasley received his degree in computer science from the University of Idaho.  He has been programming desktop applications in Python professionally for monitoring large-scale sensor networks for use in agriculture for the last 7 years. He currently lives in Moscow, Idaho, and works at METER Group. as a software engineer.

I would like to thank my wife, Nicole, for putting up with my long hours hunched over a keyboard, and her constant support and help in raising our two wonderful children. 

Ratan Kumar has been programming software in various languages and technologies for the past 4 years. Having used Python in the fields of web services for personal as well as professional projects since 2013, he finds it to be one of the most elegant, productive, and easy to pick up programming languages. Ratan is currently based in Bangalore, where he is part of the core team at smallcase, which simplifies stock market investments.