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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

Exercises

Create the following visualizations using what we have learned so far in this book and the data from this chapter. Be sure to add titles, axis labels, and legends (where appropriate) to the plots:

  1. Using seaborn, create a heatmap to visualize the correlation coefficients between earthquake magnitude and whether there was a tsunami for earthquakes measured with the mb magnitude type.
  2. Create a box plot of Facebook volume traded and closing prices, and draw reference lines for the bounds of a Tukey fence with a multiplier of 1.5. The bounds will be at Q1 − 1.5 × IQR and Q3 + 1.5 × IQR. Be sure to use the quantile() method on the data to make this easier. (Pick whichever orientation you prefer for the plot, but make sure to use subplots.)
  3. Plot the evolution of cumulative COVID-19 cases worldwide, and add a dashed vertical line on the date that it surpassed 1 million. Be sure to format the tick labels on the y-axis accordingly.
  4. Use axvspan(...