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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas - Second Edition

By : Stefanie Molin
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Book Image

Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Stefanie Molin

Overview of this book

Extracting valuable business insights is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’, but an essential skill for anyone who handles data in their enterprise. Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas is here to help beginners and those who are migrating their skills into data science get up to speed in no time. This book will show you how to analyze your data, get started with machine learning, and work effectively with the 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 pandas library to perform data wrangling to reshape, clean, and aggregate your data. Then, you will learn how 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. This updated edition will equip you with the skills you need to use pandas 1.x to efficiently perform various data manipulation tasks, reliably reproduce analyses, and visualize your data for effective decision making – valuable knowledge that can be applied across multiple domains.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
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

Overview of the machine learning landscape

Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) whereby an algorithm can learn to predict values from input data without explicitly being taught rules. These algorithms rely on statistics to make inferences as they learn; they then use what they learn to make predictions.

Applying for a loan, using a search engine, sending a robot vacuum to clean a specific room with a voice command—machine learning can be found everywhere we look. This is because it can be used for many purposes, for example, voice recognition by AI assistants such as Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant, mapping floor plans by exploring surroundings, determining who will default on a loan, figuring out which search results are relevant, and even painting (https://www.boredpanda.com/computer-deep-learning-algorithm-painting-masters/).

Machine learning models can be made to adapt to changes in the input over time and are a huge help in making decisions...