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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

You're reading from   Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications A fun, project-based guide to learning Python 3 while building real-world apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789535365
Length 482 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philipp Kats Philipp Kats
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David Katz David Katz
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Python
2. Preparing the Workspace FREE CHAPTER 3. First Steps in Coding - Variables and Data Types 4. Functions 5. Data Structures 6. Loops and Other Compound Statements 7. First Script – Geocoding with Web APIs 8. Scraping Data from the Web with Beautiful Soup 4 9. Simulation with Classes and Inheritance 10. Shell, Git, Conda, and More – at Your Command 11. Section 2: Hands-On with Data
12. Python for Data Applications 13. Data Cleaning and Manipulation 14. Data Exploration and Visualization 15. Training a Machine Learning Model 16. Improving Your Model – Pipelines and Experiments 17. Section 3: Moving to Production
18. Packaging and Testing with Poetry and PyTest 19. Data Pipelines with Luigi 20. Let's Build a Dashboard 21. Serving Models with a RESTful API 22. Serverless API Using Chalice 23. Best Practices and Python Performance 24. Assessments 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with VS Code

VS Code is invaluable for Python development and experimentation. VS Code—not to be confused with Visual Studio, which is a commercial product—is a sophisticated, completely free, and open source text editor created by Microsoft. It is language-agnostic and will work perfectly with Python, JavaScript, Java, or any other language. VS Code has hundreds of built-in features and thousands of great plugins to expand its capabilities.

In order to install VS Code, head to its main web page, https://code.visualstudio.com/, and download the package for your OS. The installation is pretty straightforward; there is no need to change any of the default settings. Assuming you installed VS Code as part of the previous steps, you now need to open the VS Code application. Next, switch to the plugin marketplace menu (as shown in the following screenshot), type...

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