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Mastering pandas

You're reading from   Mastering pandas A complete guide to pandas, from installation to advanced data analysis techniques

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Published in Oct 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789343236
Length 674 pages
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Ashish Kumar Ashish Kumar
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Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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Preface 1. Section 1: Overview of Data Analysis and pandas FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to pandas and Data Analysis 3. Installation of pandas and Supporting Software 4. Section 2: Data Structures and I/O in pandas
5. Using NumPy and Data Structures with pandas 6. I/Os of Different Data Formats with pandas 7. Section 3: Mastering Different Data Operations in pandas
8. Indexing and Selecting in pandas 9. Grouping, Merging, and Reshaping Data in pandas 10. Special Data Operations in pandas 11. Time Series and Plotting Using Matplotlib 12. Section 4: Going a Step Beyond with pandas
13. Making Powerful Reports In Jupyter Using pandas 14. A Tour of Statistics with pandas and NumPy 15. A Brief Tour of Bayesian Statistics and Maximum Likelihood Estimates 16. Data Case Studies Using pandas 17. The pandas Library Architecture 18. pandas Compared with Other Tools 19. A Brief Tour of Machine Learning 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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pandas is a popular Python library used by data scientists and analysts worldwide to manipulate and analyze their data. This book presents useful data manipulation techniques in pandas for performing complex data analysis in various domains. It provides features and capabilities that make data analysis much easier and faster than with many other popular languages, such as Java, C, C++, and Ruby.

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Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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