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Mastering pandas - Second Edition

By : Ashish Kumar
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Mastering pandas - Second Edition

By: Ashish Kumar

Overview of this book

pandas is a popular Python library used by data scientists and analysts worldwide to manipulate and analyze their data. This book presents useful data manipulation techniques in pandas to perform complex data analysis in various domains. An update to our highly successful previous edition with new features, examples, updated code, and more, this book is an in-depth guide to get the most out of pandas for data analysis. Designed for both intermediate users as well as seasoned practitioners, you will learn advanced data manipulation techniques, such as multi-indexing, modifying data structures, and sampling your data, which allow for powerful analysis and help you gain accurate insights from it. With the help of this book, you will apply pandas to different domains, such as Bayesian statistics, predictive analytics, and time series analysis using an example-based approach. And not just that; you will also learn how to prepare powerful, interactive business reports in pandas using the Jupyter notebook. By the end of this book, you will learn how to perform efficient data analysis using pandas on complex data, and become an expert data analyst or data scientist in the process.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Overview of Data Analysis and pandas
4
Section 2: Data Structures and I/O in pandas
7
Section 3: Mastering Different Data Operations in pandas
12
Section 4: Going a Step Beyond with pandas

Motivation for data analysis

In this section, we discuss the trends that are making data analysis an increasingly important field in today's fast-moving technological landscape.

We live in a big data world

The term big data has become one of the hottest technology buzzwords in the past two years. We now increasingly hear about big data in various media outlets, and big data start-ups have increasingly been attracting venture capital. A good example in the area of retail is Target Corporation, which has invested substantially in big data and is now able to identify potential customers by using big data to analyze people's shopping habits online; refer to a related article at http://nyti.ms/19LT8ic.

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