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Data Science Projects with Python

By : Stephen Klosterman
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Data Science Projects with Python

By: Stephen Klosterman

Overview of this book

Data Science Projects with Python is designed to give you practical guidance on industry-standard data analysis and machine learning tools, by applying them to realistic data problems. You will learn how to use pandas and Matplotlib to critically examine datasets with summary statistics and graphs, and extract the insights you seek to derive. You will build your knowledge as you prepare data using the scikit-learn package and feed it to machine learning algorithms such as regularized logistic regression and random forest. You’ll discover how to tune algorithms to provide the most accurate predictions on new and unseen data. As you progress, you’ll gain insights into the working and output of these algorithms, building your understanding of both the predictive capabilities of the models and why they make these predictions. By then end of this book, you will have the necessary skills to confidently use machine learning algorithms to perform detailed data analysis and extract meaningful insights from unstructured data.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Data Science Projects with Python
Preface

Chapter 1. Data Exploration and Cleaning

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Perform basic operations in Python

  • Describe the business context of the case study data and its suitability for the task

  • Perform data cleaning operations

  • Examine statistical summaries and visualize the case study data

  • Implement one-hot encoding on categorical variables

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This chapter will get you started with basic operations in Python and shows you how to perform data-related operations such as data verification, data cleaning, datatype conversion, examining statistical summaries, and more.