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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

Summary

Now that we've completed this chapter, we are well-equipped to quickly create a variety of visualizations in Python using pandas and matplotlib. We now understand the basics of how matplotlib works and the main components of a plot. Additionally, we discussed various plot types and the situations in which to use them—a crucial component of data visualization is choosing the appropriate plot. Be sure to check out the Choosing the appropriate visualization section in the Appendix for future reference.

Note that the best practices for visualization don't just apply to the plot type, but also to the formatting of the plot, which we will discuss in the next chapter. In addition to this, we will build upon the foundation we laid here to discuss additional plots using seaborn and how to customize our plots using matplotlib. Be sure to complete the end-of-chapter exercises to practice plotting before moving on, as we will be building on this chapter's material...