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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563452
Length 788 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stefanie Molin Stefanie Molin
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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

Building a Python package

Building packages is considered good coding practice since it allows for writing modular code and reuse. Modular code is code that is written in many smaller pieces for more pervasive use, without needing to know the underlying implementation details of everything involved in a task. For example, when we use matplotlib to plot something, we don't need to know what the code inside the functions we call is doing exactly—it suffices to simply know what the input and output will be to build on top of it.

Package structure

A module is a single file of Python code that can be imported; window_calc.py from Chapter 4, Aggregating Pandas DataFrames, and viz.py from Chapter 6, Plotting with Seaborn and Customization Techniques, were both modules. A package is a collection of modules organized into directories. Packages can also be imported, but when we import a package we have access to certain modules inside, so we don't have to import each one...

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