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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

By : Philipp Kats, David Katz
Book Image

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
17
Section 3: Moving to Production

Expanding Luigi with custom template classes

In the previous section, we used the CopyToTable class as the template instead of luigi.Task. In fact, this is a good pattern to use! If there is any custom configuration or code you can use from one task to another, feel free to create a custom task class of your own. For example, in our practice, we use a custom S3Task class, similar to the one that follows:

from luigi.contrib.s3 import S3Client, S3Target
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO, BytesIO

class S3Task(luigi.Task):
client = S3Client()

def _upload_csv(df, path):
content = df.to_csv(float_format="%.3f", index=None)
self.client.put_string(
content=content, destination_s3_path=path,
ContentType="text/csv"
)


def _upload_binary(self, df):
format_ = path.split(".")[-1]
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