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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787123137

Length 446 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Pandas

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Michael Heydt

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. pandas and Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER

2. Up and Running with pandas

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

Installation of Anaconda

This book will utilize Anaconda Python version 3, specifically 3.6.1. At the time of writing, pandas is at version 0.20.2. The Anaconda installer by default will install Python, IPython, Jupyter Notebook, and pandas.

Anaconda Python can be downloaded from the Continuum Analytics website at http://continuum.io/downloads. The web server will identify your browser's operating system and present you with an appropriate software download file for that platform.

When opening this URL in your browser you will see a page similar to the following:

Click on the link for the installer for your platform. This will present you with a download page similar to the following:

Download the 3.x installer. The current version of Anaconda and which will be used in this book is 4.3.1, with Python 3.6.1:

This changes frequently and by the time you read this it has probably...

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Authors (1)

Michael Heydt

Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.

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