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SciPy Recipes

By : V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos
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SciPy Recipes

By: V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

With the SciPy Stack, you get the power to effectively process, manipulate, and visualize your data using the popular Python language. Utilizing SciPy correctly can sometimes be a very tricky proposition. This book provides the right techniques so you can use SciPy to perform different data science tasks with ease. This book includes hands-on recipes for using the different components of the SciPy Stack such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and pandas, among others. You will use these libraries to solve real-world problems in linear algebra, numerical analysis, data visualization, and much more. The recipes included in the book will ensure you get a practical understanding not only of how a particular feature in SciPy Stack works, but also of its application to real-world problems. The independent nature of the recipes also ensure that you can pick up any one and learn about a particular feature of SciPy without reading through the other recipes, thus making the book a very handy and useful guide.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Data Wrangling with pandas

In this chapter, we will see the following recipes:

  • Creating Series objects
  • Creating DataFrame objects
  • Inserting and deleting columns to a DataFrame
  • Inserting and deleting rows to a DataFrame
  • Selecting items by row indexes and column labels
  • Selecting items by integer location
  • Selecting items using mixed indexing
  • Accessing, selecting, and modifying data
  • Selecting rows using Boolean selection
  • Reading and storing data in different formats
  • Data displays employing different kinds of visual representation
  • How to apply numerical functions and operations to Series and DataFrame objects
  • Computing statistical functions on Series and DataFrame objects
  • How to sort data in Series and DataFrame objects
  • Performing merging, joins, concatenation, and grouping