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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
4
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

Utilizing seaborn for advanced plotting

As we saw in the previous chapter, pandas provides implementations for most visualizations we would want to create; however, there is another library, seaborn, which provides additional functionality for more involved visualizations and makes creating visualizations with long format data much easier than pandas. These also tend to look much nicer than standard visualizations generated by matplotlib. While seaborn offers alternatives to many of the plot types we covered in the previous chapter, for the most part, we will only cover new types that seaborn makes possible and leave learning about the rest as an exercise. Additional available functions using the seaborn API can be found at https://seaborn.pydata.org/api.html.

For this section, we will be working with the 1-introduction_to_seaborn.ipynb notebook. First, we must import seaborn...