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Become a Python Data Analyst

By : Alvaro Fuentes
Book Image

Become a Python Data Analyst

By: Alvaro Fuentes

Overview of this book

Python is one of the most common and popular languages preferred by leading data analysts and statisticians for working with massive datasets and complex data visualizations. Become a Python Data Analyst introduces Python’s most essential tools and libraries necessary to work with the data analysis process, right from preparing data to performing simple statistical analyses and creating meaningful data visualizations. In this book, we will cover Python libraries such as NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, SciPy, and scikit-learn, and apply them in practical data analysis and statistics examples. As you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to efficiently use the Jupyter Notebook to operate and manipulate data using NumPy and the pandas library. In the concluding chapters, you will gain experience in building simple predictive models and carrying out statistical computation and analysis using rich Python tools and proven data analysis techniques. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience performing data analysis with Python.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the Anaconda distribution. We also installed all the software that we will use in the course, which is contained in the Anaconda distribution, and we learned about Jupyter Notebook and the basics of working with Jupyter Notebooks; about the code cells, the markdown cells, and the most useful keyboard command shortcuts to work with Jupyter and make our workflow more efficient.

In the next chapter, we will learn about NumPy, which is the core library for doing numerical computing and is at the core of every scientific computing project in the PythonX system.