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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas Efficiently perform data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization using Python

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Published in Jul 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789615326
Length 740 pages
Edition 1st 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. Introduction to Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Pandas DataFrames 4. Section 2: Using Pandas for Data Analysis
5. Data Wrangling with Pandas 6. Aggregating Pandas DataFrames 7. Visualizing Data with Pandas and Matplotlib 8. Plotting with Seaborn and Customization Techniques 9. Section 3: Applications - Real-World Analyses Using Pandas
10. Financial Analysis - Bitcoin and the Stock Market 11. Rule-Based Anomaly Detection 12. Section 4: Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
13. Getting Started with Machine Learning in Python 14. Making Better Predictions - Optimizing Models 15. Machine Learning Anomaly Detection 16. Section 5: Additional Resources
17. The Road Ahead 18. Solutions
19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Exercises

Run through the introduction_to_data_analysis.ipynb notebook for a review of this chapter's content, and then complete the following exercises to practice working with JupyterLab and calculating summary statistics in Python:

  1. Explore the JupyterLab interface and look at some of the shortcuts that are available. Don't worry about memorizing them for now (eventually, they will become second nature and save you a lot of time)—just get comfortable using Jupyter Notebooks.
  2. Is all data normally distributed? Explain why or why not.
  1. When would it make more sense to use the median instead of the mean for the measure of center?
  2. Run the code in the first cell of the exercises.ipynb notebook. It will give you a list of 100 values to work with for the rest of the exercises in this chapter.
  3. Using the data from exercise #4, calculate the following statistics without...
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