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Applying Math with Python - Second Edition

By : Sam Morley
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Applying Math with Python - Second Edition

By: Sam Morley

Overview of this book

The updated edition of Applying Math with Python will help you solve complex problems in a wide variety of mathematical fields in simple and efficient ways. Old recipes have been revised for new libraries and several recipes have been added to demonstrate new tools such as JAX. You'll start by refreshing your knowledge of several core mathematical fields and learn about packages covered in Python's scientific stack, including NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib. As you progress, you'll gradually get to grips with more advanced topics of calculus, probability, and networks (graph theory). Once you’ve developed a solid base in these topics, you’ll have the confidence to set out on math adventures with Python as you explore Python's applications in data science and statistics, forecasting, geometry, and optimization. The final chapters will take you through a collection of miscellaneous problems, including working with specific data formats and accelerating code. By the end of this book, you'll have an arsenal of practical coding solutions that can be used and modified to solve a wide range of practical problems in computational mathematics and data science.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating interactive plots with Bokeh

Test statistics and numerical reasoning are good for systematically analyzing sets of data. However, they don’t give us a good picture of the whole set of data like a plot would. Numerical values are definitive but can be difficult to understand, especially in statistics, whereas a plot instantly illustrates differences between sets of data and trends. For this reason, there is a large number of libraries for plotting data in even more creative ways. One particularly interesting package for producing plots of data is Bokeh, which allows us to create interactive plots in the browser by leveraging JavaScript libraries.

In this recipe, we will learn how to use Bokeh to create an interactive plot that can be displayed in the browser.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the pandas package imported as pd, the NumPy package imported as np, an instance of the default random number generator constructed with the following code, and...