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Practical Data Analysis Using Jupyter Notebook

By : Marc Wintjen
Book Image

Practical Data Analysis Using Jupyter Notebook

By: Marc Wintjen

Overview of this book

Data literacy is the ability to read, analyze, work with, and argue using data. Data analysis is the process of cleaning and modeling your data to discover useful information. This book combines these two concepts by sharing proven techniques and hands-on examples so that you can learn how to communicate effectively using data. After introducing you to the basics of data analysis using Jupyter Notebook and Python, the book will take you through the fundamentals of data. Packed with practical examples, this guide will teach you how to clean, wrangle, analyze, and visualize data to gain useful insights, and you'll discover how to answer questions using data with easy-to-follow steps. Later chapters teach you about storytelling with data using charts, such as histograms and scatter plots. As you advance, you'll understand how to work with unstructured data using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to perform sentiment analysis. All the knowledge you gain will help you discover key patterns and trends in data using real-world examples. In addition to this, you will learn how to handle data of varying complexity to perform efficient data analysis using modern Python libraries. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the practical skills you need to analyze data with confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Data Analysis Essentials
7
Section 2: Solutions for Data Discovery
12
Section 3: Working with Unstructured Big Data
16
Works Cited

Explaining distribution analysis

I cannot recall a time in history where data, statistics, and science consumed daily lives as it does today. The news cycles are presenting a crisis as it unfolds in real time where changes to human behavior are happening and social norms are being redefined. As I'm writing this book, the concept of flattening the curve has gone mainstream and has become a globally understood concept because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. You have probably seen something similar to what is shown in the following diagram, which was adapted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These types of visualizations are commonly used to communicate the importance of preventing the spread of a disease. The following visualization has two curves, one in yellow labeled No Intervention measures taken and the other in blue named "Flatten the Curve" using preventative measures. A dotted reference line labeled Healthcare capacity is available...