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Data Analysis with Python

You're reading from   Data Analysis with Python A Modern Approach

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789950069
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Programming and Data Science – A New Toolset FREE CHAPTER 2. Python and Jupyter Notebooks to Power your Data Analysis 3. Accelerate your Data Analysis with Python Libraries 4. Publish your Data Analysis to the Web - the PixieApp Tool 5. Python and PixieDust Best Practices and Advanced Concepts 6. Analytics Study: AI and Image Recognition with TensorFlow 7. Analytics Study: NLP and Big Data with Twitter Sentiment Analysis 8. Analytics Study: Prediction - Financial Time Series Analysis and Forecasting 9. Analytics Study: Graph Algorithms - US Domestic Flight Data Analysis 10. The Future of Data Analysis and Where to Develop your Skills A. PixieApp Quick-Reference Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Getting started with NumPy

The NumPy library is one of the main reasons why Python has gained so much traction in the data scientist community. It is a foundational library upon which a lot of the most popular libraries, such as pandas (https://pandas.pydata.org), Matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org), SciPy (https://www.scipy.org), and scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org) are built.

The key capabilities provided by NumPy are:

  • A very powerful multidimensional NumPy array called ndarray with very high-performance mathematical operations (at least compared to regular Python lists and arrays)
  • Universal functions also called ufunc for short, for providing very efficient and easy-to-use element by element operations on one or more ndarray
  • Powerful ndarray slicing and selection capabilities
  • Broadcasting functions that make it possible to apply arithmetic operations on ndarray of different shapes provided that some rules are respected

Before we start exploring the NumPy APIs, there is one API...

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