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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

Summary

With that, we have walked through many of the different concepts we covered throughout this book in one comprehensive exercise. In this chapter, we learned more about real-world data sources that can be used for analysis. We also created a repeatable workflow that can be summarized as a workflow that collects external data sources, joins them together, and then analyzes the results.Since we know the reality of working with data is never that straightforward, we walked through some inherent challenges of working with it. We have broken down the steps of collecting multiple sources, transforming them, and cleansing, joining, grouping, and visualizing the results. The more you work hands-on with data, the easier it is to apply these concepts to any dataset with the foundation remaining constant. As you increase your data literacy skills when it comes to working with data, you will notice the syntax and tools will change but that the challenges and opportunities to solve problems...