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Time Series Analysis with Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Time Series Analysis with Python Cookbook Practical recipes for exploratory data analysis, data preparation, forecasting, and model evaluation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2025
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ISBN-13 9781805124283
Length 98 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tarek A. Atwan Tarek A. Atwan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

1. Time Series Analysis with Python Cookbook, Second Edition: Practical recipes for exploratory data analysis, data preparation, forecasting, and model evaluation FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Time Series Analysis 3. Reading Time Series Data from Files 4. Reading Time Series Data from Databases 5. Persisting Time Series Data to Files 6. Persisting Time Series Data to Databases 7. Working with Date and Time in Python 8. Handling Missing Data 9. Outlier Detection Using Statistical Methods 10. Exploratory Data Analysis and Diagnosis 11. Building Univariate Time Series Models Using Statistical Methods 12. Additional Statistical Modeling Techniques for Time Series 13. Outlier Detection Using Unsupervised Machine Learning

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In this chapter, we will use pandas, a popular Python library with a rich set of I/O tools, data wrangling, and date/time functionality to streamline working with time series data. In addition, you will explore several reader functions available in pandas to ingest data from different file types, such as Comma-Separated Value (CSV), Excel, and SAS. You will explore reading from files, whether stored locally on your drive or remotely on the cloud, such as an AWS S3 bucket.

Time series data is complex and can be in different shapes and formats. Conveniently, the pandas reader functions offer a vast number of arguments (parameters) to help handle such variety in the data.

The pandas library provides two fundamental data structures, Series and DataFrame, implemented as classes. The DataFrame class is a distinct data structure for working with tabular data (think rows and columns in a spreadsheet). The main difference between the...

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