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Python Data Analysis

You're reading from   Python Data Analysis Learn how to apply powerful data analysis techniques with popular open source Python modules

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783553358
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivan Idris Ivan Idris
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Python Libraries FREE CHAPTER 2. NumPy Arrays 3. Statistics and Linear Algebra 4. pandas Primer 5. Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data 6. Data Visualization 7. Signal Processing and Time Series 8. Working with Databases 9. Analyzing Textual Data and Social Media 10. Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning 11. Environments Outside the Python Ecosystem and Cloud Computing 12. Performance Tuning, Profiling, and Concurrency A. Key Concepts
B. Useful Functions C. Online Resources
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Data aggregation with pandas DataFrames


Data aggregation is a term known from relational databases. In a database query, we can group data by the value in a column or columns. We can then perform various operations on each of these groups. The pandas DataFrame has similar capabilities. We will generate data held in a Python dict and then use this data to create a pandas DataFrame. We will then practice the pandas aggregation features:

  1. Seed the NumPy random generator to make sure that the generated data will not differ between repeated program runs. The data will have four columns:

    • Weather (a string)

    • Food (also a string)

    • Price (a random float)

    • Number (a random integer between one and nine)

    The use case is that we have the results for some sort of a consumer-purchase research, combined with weather and market pricing, where we calculate the average of prices and keep a track of the sample size and parameters:

    import pandas as pd
    from numpy.random import seed
    from numpy.random import rand
    from...
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