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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

Boolean and fancy indexing

Indexing techniques help us to select and filter elements from a NumPy array. In this section, we will focus on Boolean and fancy indexing. Boolean indexing uses a Boolean expression in the place of indexes (in square brackets) to filter the NumPy array. This indexing returns elements that have a true value for the Boolean expression:

# Create NumPy Array
arr = np.arange(21,41,2)
print("Orignial Array:\n",arr)

# Boolean Indexing
print("After Boolean Condition:",arr[arr>30])

Output:
Orignial Array:
[21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39]
After Boolean Condition: [31 33 35 37 39]

Fancy indexing is a special type of indexing in which elements of an array are selected by an array of indices. This means we pass the array of indices in brackets. Fancy indexing also supports multi-dimensional arrays. This will help us to easily select and modify a complex multi-dimensional set of arrays. Let's see an example as follows to understand fancy indexing:

# Create...