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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

By : Philipp Kats, David Katz
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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

By: Philipp Kats, David Katz

Overview of this book

Python is the most widely used programming language for building data science applications. Complete with step-by-step instructions, this book contains easy-to-follow tutorials to help you learn Python and develop real-world data science projects. The “secret sauce” of the book is its curated list of topics and solutions, put together using a range of real-world projects, covering initial data collection, data analysis, and production. This Python book starts by taking you through the basics of programming, right from variables and data types to classes and functions. You’ll learn how to write idiomatic code and test and debug it, and discover how you can create packages or use the range of built-in ones. You’ll also be introduced to the extensive ecosystem of Python data science packages, including NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, Altair, and Datashader. Furthermore, you’ll be able to perform data analysis, train models, and interpret and communicate the results. Finally, you’ll get to grips with structuring and scheduling scripts using Luigi and sharing your machine learning models with the world as a microservice. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned not only how to implement Python in data science projects, but also how to maintain and design them to meet high programming standards.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Python
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Section 2: Hands-On with Data
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Section 3: Moving to Production

Understanding Jupyter

Finally, there is Jupyter. We're familiar with this tool already, as it proved invaluable for teachingand learning Python on simple examples, but it especially shines for data science; given its rich media and visualization capabilities, Jupyter is an excellent environment for data analysis. It allows quick iteration and experimentation, supports markdown documentation and rich mediaimages, plots, interactive widgets, video, and so on. Of course, Jupyter is 100% open source and free.

Jupyter is also language agnostic. At the moment, there is a handful of languages to use with Jupyter, including Ruby, C, Rust, R, and many more. It also supports third-party plugins, for example, leaflet and Mapbox viewers for GeoJSON files or the Vega data visualization viewer. Another advantage is that Jupyter Notebooks are properly rendered on GitHub...