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Practical Data Science with Python

You're reading from   Practical Data Science with Python Learn tools and techniques from hands-on examples to extract insights from data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071970
Length 620 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nathan George Nathan George
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Table of Contents (30) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part I - An Introduction and the Basics
2. Introduction to Data Science FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Python 4. Part II - Dealing with Data
5. SQL and Built-in File Handling Modules in Python 6. Loading and Wrangling Data with Pandas and NumPy 7. Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization 8. Data Wrangling Documents and Spreadsheets 9. Web Scraping 10. Part III - Statistics for Data Science
11. Probability, Distributions, and Sampling 12. Statistical Testing for Data Science 13. Part IV - Machine Learning
14. Preparing Data for Machine Learning: Feature Selection, Feature Engineering, and Dimensionality Reduction 15. Machine Learning for Classification 16. Evaluating Machine Learning Classification Models and Sampling for Classification 17. Machine Learning with Regression 18. Optimizing Models and Using AutoML 19. Tree-Based Machine Learning Models 20. Support Vector Machine (SVM) Machine Learning Models 21. Part V - Text Analysis and Reporting
22. Clustering with Machine Learning 23. Working with Text 24. Part VI - Wrapping Up
25. Data Storytelling and Automated Reporting/Dashboarding 26. Ethics and Privacy 27. Staying Up to Date and the Future of Data Science 28. Other Books You May Enjoy
29. Index

Test your knowledge

To help you remember what you just learned, try answering the following questions. Try to answer the questions without looking back at the answers in the chapter at first. The answer key is included in the GitHub repository for this book (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Data-Science-with-Python).

  1. What are the top three data science programming languages, in order, according to the 2020 Kaggle data science and machine learning survey?
  2. What is the trade-off between using a GUI versus using a programming language for data science? What are some of the GUIs for data science that we mentioned?
  3. What are the top three cloud providers for data science and machine learning according to the Kaggle 2020 survey?
  4. What percentage of time do data scientists spend cleaning and preparing data?
  5. What specializations in and around data science did we discuss?
  6. What data science project management strategies did we discuss, and which one is the most recent? What are their acronyms and what do the acronyms stand for?
  7. What are the steps in the two data science project management strategies we discussed? Try to draw the diagrams of the strategies from memory.
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Practical Data Science with Python
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