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Learning pandas

You're reading from   Learning pandas High performance data manipulation and analysis using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787123137
Length 446 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Heydt Michael Heydt
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. pandas and Data Analysis 2. Up and Running with pandas FREE CHAPTER 3. Representing Univariate Data with the Series 4. Representing Tabular and Multivariate Data with the DataFrame 5. Manipulating DataFrame Structure 6. Indexing Data 7. Categorical Data 8. Numerical and Statistical Methods 9. Accessing Data 10. Tidying Up Your Data 11. Combining, Relating, and Reshaping Data 12. Data Aggregation 13. Time-Series Modelling 14. Visualization 15. Historical Stock Price Analysis

Summary

In this chapter, we went on a tour of the how and why of pandas, data manipulation/analysis, and science. This started with an overview of why pandas exists, what functionality it contains, and how it relates to concepts of data manipulation, analysis, and data science.

Then we covered a process for data analysis to set a framework for why certain functions exist in pandas. These include retrieving data, organizing and cleaning it up, doing exploration, and then building a formal model, presenting your findings, and being able to share and reproduce the analysis.

Next, we covered several concepts involved in data and statistical modeling. This included covering many common analysis techniques and concepts, so as to introduce you to these and make you more familiar when they are explored in more detail in subsequent chapters.

pandas is also a part of a larger Python ecosystem of libraries that are useful for data analysis and science. While this book will focus only on pandas, there are other libraries that you will come across and that were introduced so you are familiar with them when they crop up.

We are ready to begin using pandas. In the next chapter, we will begin to ease ourselves into pandas, starting with obtaining a Python and pandas environment, an overview of Jupyter notebooks, and then getting a quick introduction to pandas Series and DataFrame objects before delving into them im more depth in subsequent elements of pandas.

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