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Pandas 1.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Pandas 1.x Cookbook Practical recipes for scientific computing, time series analysis, and exploratory data analysis using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213106
Length 626 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Theodore Petrou Theodore Petrou
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Matthew Harrison Matthew Harrison
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Pandas Foundations 2. Essential DataFrame Operations FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating and Persisting DataFrames 4. Beginning Data Analysis 5. Exploratory Data Analysis 6. Selecting Subsets of Data 7. Filtering Rows 8. Index Alignment 9. Grouping for Aggregation, Filtration, and Transformation 10. Restructuring Data into a Tidy Form 11. Combining Pandas Objects 12. Time Series Analysis 13. Visualization with Matplotlib, Pandas, and Seaborn 14. Debugging and Testing Pandas 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Uncovering Simpson's Paradox in the diamonds dataset with seaborn

It is unfortunately quite easy to report erroneous results when doing data analysis. Simpson's Paradox is one of the more common phenomena that can appear. It occurs when one group shows a higher result than another group, when all the data is aggregated, but it shows the opposite when the data is subdivided into different segments. For instance, let's say we have two students, A and B, who have each been given a test with 100 questions on it. Student A answers 50% of the questions correct, while Student B gets 80% correct. This obviously suggests Student B has greater aptitude:

Student Raw Score Percent Correct

A

50/100

50

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