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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

By : Umit Mert Cakmak, Tiago Antao, Mert Cuhadaroglu
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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

By: Umit Mert Cakmak, Tiago Antao, Mert Cuhadaroglu

Overview of this book

NumPy is one of the most important scientific computing libraries available for Python. Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy teaches you how to achieve expert level competency to perform complex operations, with in-depth coverage of advanced concepts. Beginning with NumPy's arrays and functions, you will familiarize yourself with linear algebra concepts to perform vector and matrix math operations. You will thoroughly understand and practice data processing, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and predictive modeling. You will then move on to working on practical examples which will teach you how to use NumPy statistics in order to explore US housing data and develop a predictive model using simple and multiple linear regression techniques. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you will explore unsupervised learning and clustering algorithms, followed by understanding how to write better NumPy code while keeping advanced considerations in mind. The book also demonstrates the use of different high-performance numerical computing libraries and their relationship with NumPy. You will study how to benchmark the performance of different configurations and choose the best for your system. By the end of this book, you will have become an expert in handling and performing complex data manipulations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you practiced NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and scikit-learn, using various examples, mainly for machine learning tasks. When you use Python data science libraries, there is usually more than one way of performing given task, and it usually helps to know more than one method.

You can either use alternatives for better implementations or for the sake of comparison. While trying different methods for a given task, you may either find different options that will allow you to further customize the implementation or simply observe some performance improvements.

The aim of this chapter was to show you these different options, and how flexible the Python language is because of its rich ecosystem of analytics libraries. In the next chapter, you will learn more about NumPy internals, such as how numpy manages data structures and memory, code profiling, and also tips for...