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Data Analysis and Exploration with Pandas [Video]

By : Theodore Petrou
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Data Analysis and Exploration with Pandas [Video]

By: Theodore Petrou

Overview of this book

<p>Are you looking for a gigantic boost in your productivity? Are you searching for some interesting and fun tricks to solve your data problems? If so, then this course is indeed a perfect choice for you. This course provides you with unique, idiomatic, and amazing solutions for both fundamental and advanced data manipulation tasks with pandas.</p> <p>Some solutions focus on achieving a deeper understanding of basic principles, or comparing and contrasting two similar operations. A few others will delve into a particular dataset, and let you uncover new and unexpected insights along the way.</p> <p>The pandas library is massive, and it's common for frequent users to be unaware of many of its more impressive features. The official pandas documentation, while thorough, does not contain many useful examples of how to piece together multiple commands as one would do during an actual analysis. This course guides you, as if you were looking over the shoulder of an expert, through practical situations that you are highly likely to encounter. Many advanced solutions combine several different features across the pandas library to generate results.</p> <p>The code bundle for the video course is available at - <a style="color: #fa8d11;" href="https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Data-Analysis-and-Exploration-with-Pandas" target="blank">https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Data-Analysis-and-Exploration-with-Pandas</a></p> <h2><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h2> <p>This course includes interesting and illustrative examples and delivers very detailed explanations for each line of code in all of the examples. All code and dataset explanations exist in Jupyter Notebooks, an excellent interface for exploring data. In other words, this is an easy guide with a problem/solution approach for real-world datasets.</p>
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Chapter 5
Boolean Indexing
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Section 8
Determining the Normality of Stock Market Returns
Stock market returns are a prime example of a distribution that can look fairly normal but in actuality be quite far off. This video describes how to find daily stock market returns of the internet retail giant Amazon and informally test whether they follow a normal distribution. - Load Amazon stock data and set the date as the index - Create a Series by selecting only the closing price - Calculate the absolute value of the z-score for each observation