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Python Data Analysis

Python Data Analysis - Fourth Edition

By : Avinash Navlani, Cornellius Yudha Wijaya
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Python Data Analysis

Python Data Analysis

By: Avinash Navlani, Cornellius Yudha Wijaya

Overview of this book

Modern data analysis goes beyond cleaning and visualizing data. Today's practitioners need to build scalable data pipelines, apply machine learning, work with text and image data, and understand emerging AI techniques such as Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). This guide shows you how to tackle these challenges using Python's modern data ecosystem. Unlike books focused on a single library or technique, this book provides an end-to-end approach to Python data analysis. You'll learn how to move from data preparation and exploratory analysis to machine learning, NLP, image analytics, scalable processing, and AI-powered workflows. Starting with statistical foundations, you'll learn how to clean, transform, wrangle, and visualize data. You'll then explore time series analysis, signal processing, forecasting, and predictive analytics before applying machine learning techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, PCA, probabilistic methods, and Bayesian approaches. The book also covers graph analytics, sentiment analysis, NLP, image analytics, Generative AI, and LLMs. Finally, you'll learn to scale analytics workflows using Dask, Modin, Ray, and PySpark. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build end-to-end data analysis pipelines and apply modern data science and AI techniques to solve real-world challenges.
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Part 1: Foundations for Data Analysis
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Part 2: Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Cleaning
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Part 3: Deep Dive into Machine Learning
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Part 4: NLP, Image Analytics, and Parallel Computing
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Handling missing values

Missing values refers to the absence of data in a dataset in which the specific dataset variables and observations do not contain any value. They differ from the case where the value is not in a consistent format; missing values mean no values are recorded at all.

For instance, in a survey questionnaire, there could be an optional question such as “You can choose not to answer the question: ‘How old are you?’”. For respondents who decline to answer the question, the data corresponding to this variable will be treated as missing.

The next question is: Why do we need to care about missing values for the validity of our data analysis? There are a few reasons why missing data could have an impact:

  • Missing values could introduce bias in the estimation of the result. For example, participants who chose not to answer the questions tended to be older, which means the conclusions drawn from the responses will lean toward...
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