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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)

Matrix operations and functions on two-dimensional arrays

Basic matrix operations form the backbone of quite a few statistical analyses—for example, neural networks. In this section, we will be covering some of the most used operations and functions on 2D arrays:

  • Addition
  • Multiplication by scalar
  • Matrix arithmetic
  • Matrix-matrix multiplication
  • Matrix inversion
  • Matrix transposition

In the following sections, we will look into the methods of implementing each of them in Python using SciPy/NumPy.

How to do it…

Let's look the the different methods.

Matrix addition

In order to understand how matrix addition is done, we will first initialize two arrays:

# Initializing an array
x = np.array([[1, 1], [2, 2]])
y ...