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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)
Free Chapter
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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

Summary

Congratulations on making it through this chapter! Data wrangling isn't the most exciting part of the analytics workflow, but we will spend a lot of time on it, so it's best to be well-versed in what pandas has to offer. In this chapter, we learned more about what data wrangling is (aside from a data science buzzword) and got some firsthand experience with data cleaning and reshaping our data. Utilizing the requests library, we once again practiced working with APIs to extract data of interest; then, we used pandas to begin our data wrangling, which we will continue in the next chapter. Finally, we learned how to deal with duplicate, missing, and invalid data points in various ways and discussed the ramifications of those decisions.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to aggregate dataframes.