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Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

By : Avinash Navlani, Ivan Idris
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Book Image

Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Avinash Navlani, Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

Data analysis enables you to generate value from small and big data by discovering new patterns and trends, and Python is one of the most popular tools for analyzing a wide variety of data. With this book, you’ll get up and running using Python for data analysis by exploring the different phases and methodologies used in data analysis and learning how to use modern libraries from the Python ecosystem to create efficient data pipelines. Starting with the essential statistical and data analysis fundamentals using Python, you’ll perform complex data analysis and modeling, data manipulation, data cleaning, and data visualization using easy-to-follow examples. You’ll then understand how to conduct time series analysis and signal processing using ARMA models. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with smart processing and data analytics using machine learning algorithms such as regression, classification, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and clustering. In the concluding chapters, you’ll work on real-world examples to analyze textual and image data using natural language processing (NLP) and image analytics techniques, respectively. Finally, the book will demonstrate parallel computing using Dask. By the end of this data analysis book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to prepare data for analysis and create meaningful data visualizations for forecasting values from data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Foundation for Data Analysis
6
Section 2: Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Cleaning
11
Section 3: Deep Dive into Machine Learning
15
Section 4: NLP, Image Analytics, and Parallel Computing

Blurring an image

Blurring is one of the crucial steps of image preprocessing. In preprocessing, the removal of noise impacts the performance of algorithms. Blurring is the process of reducing noise in image data to achieve better accuracy. Blurring also helps us to take charge of handling pixel intensity.

Let's see an example of blurring an image:

# Import OpenCV module
import cv2

# Import matplotlib for showing the image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Magic function to render the figure in a notebook
%matplotlib inline

# Read image
image = cv2.imread('tajmahal.jpg')

# Convert image color space BGR to RGB
rgb_image=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)

# Display the image
plt.imshow(rgb_image)

This results in the following output:

In the preceding code sample, we read the image and converted it from a BGR to RGB based image. Let's blur it using the blur() function. Blur takes two arguments: image and kernel size. The blur() function uses the average blurring method:

# Blur...