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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

The shape of the curve

We will now dive into creating visualizations from data using a new library named matplotlib, which was installed when you used Anaconda for the first time. According to the history page from matplotlib.org, this library evolved from MATLAB graphics and was created by John D. Hunter with the philosophy that you should be able to create simple plots with just a few commands, or just one!

Like many of the libraries we've introduced, there is a multitude of features and capabilities available to help you create charts and data visualizations.The matplotlib library has an ecosystem that you can apply to different use cases that nicely compliment the libraries of pandas and numpy.

There are many tutorials and additional resources available to help you learn the library. I have added the necessary links in the Further reading section for your reference.

In this example, we are going to load a CSV file that contains stock price details...