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Mastering pandas

You're reading from   Mastering pandas A complete guide to pandas, from installation to advanced data analysis techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789343236
Length 674 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ashish Kumar Ashish Kumar
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Overview of Data Analysis and pandas FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to pandas and Data Analysis 3. Installation of pandas and Supporting Software 4. Section 2: Data Structures and I/O in pandas
5. Using NumPy and Data Structures with pandas 6. I/Os of Different Data Formats with pandas 7. Section 3: Mastering Different Data Operations in pandas
8. Indexing and Selecting in pandas 9. Grouping, Merging, and Reshaping Data in pandas 10. Special Data Operations in pandas 11. Time Series and Plotting Using Matplotlib 12. Section 4: Going a Step Beyond with pandas
13. Making Powerful Reports In Jupyter Using pandas 14. A Tour of Statistics with pandas and NumPy 15. A Brief Tour of Bayesian Statistics and Maximum Likelihood Estimates 16. Data Case Studies Using pandas 17. The pandas Library Architecture 18. pandas Compared with Other Tools 19. A Brief Tour of Machine Learning 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using mathematical methods on DataFrames

Computations such as sum, mean, and median can be performed with ease on pandas DataFrames using the built-in mathematical methods in the pandas library. Let's make use of a subset of the sales data to explore the mathematical functions and methods in pandas. While applying these mathematical functions, it should be ensured that the selected columns are numeric. The following screenshot shows the data with five rows and three columns, all of which will be used in this section:

Sample sales data

The abs() function

The abs() function returns the absolute values of records in the DataFrame. For columns with complex values in the form x+yj, the absolute value is computed as :

abs_df...
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