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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)

Differentiation

In the following section, we will look at how to solve differentiation and some of its applications.

Getting ready

There are three ways to approach the computation of derivatives:

  • Numerical differentiation refers to the process of approximation of the derivative of a given function at a point. In SciPy, we have the following procedures, which will be covered in detail:

    • For generic univariate functions, there is the central difference formula with fixed spacing.

    • It is always possible to perform numerical differentiation via Cauchy's theorem, which transforms the derivative into a definite integral. This integral is then treated with the techniques of numerical integration explained before.

  • Symbolic...