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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas Efficiently perform data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789615326
Length 740 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefanie Molin Stefanie Molin
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Pandas
2. Introduction to Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Pandas DataFrames 4. Section 2: Using Pandas for Data Analysis
5. Data Wrangling with Pandas 6. Aggregating Pandas DataFrames 7. Visualizing Data with Pandas and Matplotlib 8. Plotting with Seaborn and Customization Techniques 9. Section 3: Applications - Real-World Analyses Using Pandas
10. Financial Analysis - Bitcoin and the Stock Market 11. Rule-Based Anomaly Detection 12. Section 4: Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
13. Getting Started with Machine Learning in Python 14. Making Better Predictions - Optimizing Models 15. Machine Learning Anomaly Detection 16. Section 5: Additional Resources
17. The Road Ahead 18. Solutions
19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Adding and removing data

Often, we want to add or remove rows and columns from our data. In the previous sections, we frequently selected a subset of the columns, but if columns/rows aren't useful to us, we should just get rid of them. We also frequently selected data based on the value of the magnitude; however, if we had made a new column holding the Boolean values for later selection, we would have only needed to calculate the mask once. Very rarely will we get data where we neither want to add nor remove something.

Before we get started, it's important to understand that while most methods will return a new DataFrame object, some will be in-place and change our data. If we write a function where we pass in a dataframe and change it, it will change our original dataframe as well. Should we find ourselves in a situation where we don't want to change the original...

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