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You're reading from Mastering pandas A complete guide to pandas, from installation to advanced data analysis techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789343236

Length 674 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Pandas

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Ashish Kumar

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Overview of Data Analysis and pandas FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to pandas and Data Analysis

3. Installation of pandas and Supporting Software

4. Section 2: Data Structures and I/O in pandas

5. Using NumPy and Data Structures with pandas

6. I/Os of Different Data Formats with pandas

7. Section 3: Mastering Different Data Operations in pandas

8. Indexing and Selecting in pandas

9. Grouping, Merging, and Reshaping Data in pandas

10. Special Data Operations in pandas

11. Time Series and Plotting Using Matplotlib

12. Section 4: Going a Step Beyond with pandas

13. Making Powerful Reports In Jupyter Using pandas

14. A Tour of Statistics with pandas and NumPy

15. A Brief Tour of Bayesian Statistics and Maximum Likelihood Estimates

16. Data Case Studies Using pandas

17. The pandas Library Architecture

18. pandas Compared with Other Tools

19. A Brief Tour of Machine Learning

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Popular applications of pandas

pandas is built on top of NumPy. Some of the noteworthy uses of the pandas, apart from every other data science project of course, are the following:

pandas is a dependency of statsmodels (http://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html), making it a significant part of Python's numerical computing ecosystem.
pandas has been used extensively in the production of many financial applications.

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Authors (1)

Kumar

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.

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