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Learning Jupyter

You're reading from   Learning Jupyter Select, Share, Interact and Integrate with Jupyter Notebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884870
Length 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Jupyter 2. Jupyter Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER 3. Jupyter R Scripting 4. Jupyter Julia Scripting 5. Jupyter JavaScript Coding 6. Interactive Widgets 7. Sharing and Converting Jupyter Notebooks 8. Multiuser Jupyter Notebooks 9. Jupyter Scala 10. Jupyter and Big Data

Python pandas in Jupyter

One of the most widely used features of Python is pandas. It is a third-party library of data analysis packages that can be used freely. In this example, we will develop a Python script that uses pandas to see if there is any effect to using it in Jupyter.

I am using the Titanic dataset from http://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic-gettingStarted/download/train.csv. I am sure the same data is available from a variety of sources.

Here is the Python script that we want to run in Jupyter:

from pandas import *
training_set = read_csv('train.csv')
training_set.head()
male = training_set[training_set.sex == 'male']
female = training_set[training_set.sex =='female']
womens_survival_rate = float(sum(female.survived))/len(female)
mens_survival_rate = float(sum(male.survived))/len(male)

The result is we calculate the survival rates of the Titanic's passengers based on their sex.

We create a new notebook, enter the script into appropriate cells, include...

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Learning Jupyter
Published in: Nov 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781785884870
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