Understanding NumPy arrays

NumPy can be installed on a PC using pip or brew but if the user is using the Jupyter Notebook, then there is no need to install it. NumPy is already installed in the Jupyter Notebook. I will suggest to you to please use the Jupyter Notebook as your IDE because we are executing all the code in the Jupyter Notebook. We have already shown in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Python Libraries, how to install Anaconda, which is a complete suite for data analysis. NumPy arrays are a series of homogenous items. Homogenous means the array will have all the elements of the same data type. Let's create an array using NumPy. You can create an array using the array() function with a list of items. Users can also fix the data type of an array. Possible data types are bool, int, float, long, double, and long double.

Let's see how to create an empty array:

# Creating an array
import numpy as np
a = np.array([2,4,6,8,10])
print(a)

Output:
[ 2 4 6 8 10]

Another way to create...