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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)
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Section 1: Overview of Data Analysis and pandas
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Section 2: Data Structures and I/O in pandas
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Section 3: Mastering Different Data Operations in pandas
12
Section 4: Going a Step Beyond with pandas

GeoPandas

GeoPandas is a Python package written on top of pandas that's used to work with geospatial data. It is designed to work with existing tools, such as desktop GIS, geospatial databases, web maps, and Python data tools.

GeoPandas allows you to easily perform operations in Python that would otherwise require a spatial database such as PostGIS.

What is geospatial data?

Spatial data, geospatial data, GIS data, and geodata are the names for numeric data that identifies the geographical location of a physical object such as a building, street, town, city, country, and so on according to a geographic coordinate system. Apart from the geographical location, geospatial data often also stores socioeconomic data, transaction...