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Python Data Science Essentials [Video]

By : Alberto Boschetti, Luca Massaron
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Python Data Science Essentials [Video]

By: Alberto Boschetti, Luca Massaron

Overview of this book

<p>The Python Data Science Essentials video series takes you through all you need to know to succeed in data science using Python. Get insights into the core of Python data, including the latest versions of Jupyter Notebook, NumPy, Pandas and scikit-learn. In this course, you will delve into building your essential Python 3.6 data science toolbox, using a single-source approach that will allow to work with Python 2.7 as well. Get to grips fast with data munging and preprocessing, and prepare for machine learning and visualization techniques.</p> <p>The code bundle for the video course is available at -&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Data-Science-Essentials" target="_blank">https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Data-Science-Essentials</a></p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>The course is structured as a data science project. You will always benefit from clear code and simplified examples to help you understand the underlying mechanics and real-world datasets.</p>
Table of Contents (4 chapters)
Chapter 2
Data Munging
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Section 4
NumPy's Fast Operations and Computations
When arrays need to be manipulated by mathematical operations, you just need to apply the operation on the array with respect to a numerical constant (a scalar) or an array of the same shape. - Learn about Matrix operations - Perform slicing and indexing - Perform stacking