You're reading from Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas A Python data science handbook for data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563452

Length 788 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Pandas

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Stefanie Molin

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Pandas

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Pandas DataFrames

4. Section 2: Using Pandas for Data Analysis

5. Chapter 3: Data Wrangling with Pandas

6. Chapter 4: Aggregating Pandas DataFrames

7. Chapter 5: Visualizing Data with Pandas and Matplotlib

8. Chapter 6: Plotting with Seaborn and Customization Techniques

9. Section 3: Applications – Real-World Analyses Using Pandas

10. Chapter 7: Financial Analysis – Bitcoin and the Stock Market

11. Chapter 8: Rule-Based Anomaly Detection

12. Section 4: Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn

13. Chapter 9: Getting Started with Machine Learning in Python

14. Chapter 10: Making Better Predictions – Optimizing Models

15. Chapter 11: Machine Learning Anomaly Detection

16. Section 5: Additional Resources

17. Chapter 12: The Road Ahead

18. Solutions

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix

Chapter materials

The materials for this chapter can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/stefmolin/Hands-On-Data-Analysis-with-Pandas-2nd-edition/tree/master/ch_06. We will be working with three datasets once again, all of which can be found in the data/ directory. In the fb_stock_prices_2018.csv file, we have Facebook's stock price for all trading days in 2018. This data is the OHLC data (opening, high, low, and closing price), along with the volume traded. It was gathered using the stock_analysis package, which we will build in Chapter 7, Financial Analysis – Bitcoin and the Stock Market. The stock market is closed on the weekends, so we only have data for the trading days.

The earthquakes.csv file contains earthquake data pulled from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) API (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/) for September 18, 2018, through October 13, 2018. For each earthquake, we have the magnitude (the mag column), the scale it was measured...