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Pandas Cookbook

You're reading from   Pandas Cookbook Practical recipes for scientific computing, time series, and exploratory data analysis using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836205876
Length 404 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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William Ayd William Ayd
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Matthew Harrison Matthew Harrison
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Preface 1. pandas Foundations FREE CHAPTER 2. Selection and Assignment 3. Data Types 4. The pandas I/O System 5. Algorithms and How to Apply Them 6. Visualization 7. Reshaping DataFrames 8. Group By 9. Temporal Data Types and Algorithms 10. General Usage and Performance Tips 11. The pandas Ecosystem 12. Index

Data science

While pandas offers some built-in statistical algorithms, it cannot hope to cover all of the statistical and machine learning algorithms that are used in the domain of data science. Fortunately, however, many of the libraries that do specialize further in data science offer very tight integrations with pandas, letting you move data from one library to the next rather seamlessly.

scikit-learn

scikit-learn is a popular machine learning library that can help with both supervised and unsupervised learning. The scikit-learn library offers an impressive array of algorithms for classification, prediction, and clustering tasks, while also providing tools to pre-process and cleanse your data.

We cannot hope to cover all of these features, but for the sake of showcasing something, let’s once again load the vehicles dataset:

df = pd.read_csv(
    "data/vehicles.csv.zip",
    dtype_backend="numpy_nullable",
    dtype={
        "rangeA...
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