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Python Data Analysis Cookbook. Clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize data with the power of Python!

Python Data Analysis Cookbook. Clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize data with the power of Python!

Ivan Idris

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Data analysis is a rapidly evolving field and Python is a multi-paradigm programming language suitable for object-oriented application development and functional design patterns. As Python offers a range of tools and libraries for all purposes, it has slowly evolved as the primary language for data science, including topics on: data analysis, visualization, and machine learning.

Python Data Analysis Cookbook focuses on reproducibility and creating production-ready systems. You will start with recipes that set the foundation for data analysis with libraries such as matplotlib, NumPy, and pandas. You will learn to create visualizations by choosing color maps and palettes then dive into statistical data analysis using distribution algorithms and correlations. You’ll then help you find your way around different data and numerical problems, get to grips with Spark and HDFS, and then set up migration scripts for web mining.

In this book, you will dive deeper into recipes on spectral analysis, smoothing, and bootstrapping methods. Moving on, you will learn to rank stocks and check market efficiency, then work with metrics and clusters. You will achieve parallelism to improve system performance by using multiple threads and speeding up your code.
By the end of the book, you will be capable of handling various data analysis techniques in Python and devising solutions for problem scenarios.
  • 1. Laying the foundations for reproducible data analysis
  • 2. Creating attractive data visualizations
  • 3. Statistical data analysis and probability
  • 4. Dealing with data and numerical issues
  • 5. Web mining, Databases and Big Data
  • 6. Signal processing and timeseries
  • 7. Selecting stocks with financial data analysis
  • 8. Text mining and social network analysis
  • 9. Ensemble learning and dimension reduction
  • 10. Evaluating classifiers, regressors and clusters
  • 11. Analyzing images
  • 12. Parallelism and performance
  • 13. Appendix A: Glossary
  • 14. Appendix B: Function Reference
  • 15. Appendix C: Online Resources
  • 16. Appendix D: Tips and Tricks for Command Line and Miscellaneous Tools
  • Title: Python Data Analysis Cookbook. Clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize data with the power of Python!
  • Author: Ivan Idris
  • Original title: Python Data Analysis Cookbook. Clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize data with the power of Python!
  • ISBN: 9781785283857, 9781785283857
  • Date of issue: 2016-07-22
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3cw8
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing