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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

By : Stefanie Molin
Book Image

Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

By: Stefanie Molin

Overview of this book

Data analysis has become a necessary skill in a variety of domains where knowing how to work with data and extract insights can generate significant value. Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas will show you how to analyze your data, get started with machine learning, and work effectively with Python libraries often used for data science, such as pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, seaborn, and scikit-learn. Using real-world datasets, you will learn how to use the powerful pandas library to perform data wrangling to reshape, clean, and aggregate your data. Then, you will be able to conduct exploratory data analysis by calculating summary statistics and visualizing the data to find patterns. In the concluding chapters, you will explore some applications of anomaly detection, regression, clustering, and classification using scikit-learn to make predictions based on past data. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to use pandas to ensure the veracity of your data, visualize it for effective decision-making, and reliably reproduce analyses across multiple datasets.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Pandas
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Section 2: Using Pandas for Data Analysis
9
Section 3: Applications - Real-World Analyses Using Pandas
12
Section 4: Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
16
Section 5: Additional Resources
18
Solutions

Inspecting a DataFrame object

We just learned a few ways in which we can create dataframes from various sources, but we still don't know what to do with them or how we should start our analysis. The first thing we should do when we read in our data is inspect it; we want to make sure that our dataframe isn't empty and that the rows look as we would expect. Our main goal is to verify that it was read in properly and that all of the data is there; however, this initial inspection will also give us ideas on where to direct our data wrangling efforts. In this section, we will explore ways in which we can inspect our dataframes in the 4-inspecting_dataframes.ipynb notebook.

Since this is a new notebook, we once again must handle our setup. This time, we need to import pandas and numpy, as well as read in the CSV file with the earthquake data:

>>> import numpy as...