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Learning pandas

You're reading from   Learning pandas High performance data manipulation and analysis using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787123137
Length 446 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Heydt Michael Heydt
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. pandas and Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 2. Up and Running with pandas 3. Representing Univariate Data with the Series 4. Representing Tabular and Multivariate Data with the DataFrame 5. Manipulating DataFrame Structure 6. Indexing Data 7. Categorical Data 8. Numerical and Statistical Methods 9. Accessing Data 10. Tidying Up Your Data 11. Combining, Relating, and Reshaping Data 12. Data Aggregation 13. Time-Series Modelling 14. Visualization 15. Historical Stock Price Analysis

Plotting basics with pandas

The pandas library itself performs does not perform data visualization. To perform this, pandas tightly integrates with other robust visualization libraries that are part of the Python ecosystem. The most common of these integrations is with matplotlib. This chapter will, therefore, focus its examples on matplotlib, but we will also point you to other possible libraries to try on your own. Two of these are worth mentioning.

Seaborn is another Python visualization library which is also based on matplotlib. It provides a high-level interface for rendering attractive statistical graphics. It has native support for NumPy and pandas data structures. The goal of Seaborn is to create matplotlib graphs that look a lot less scientific in nature. To learn about Seaborn, please visit the site at http://seaborn.pydata.org/index.html.

While both Seaborn and matplotlib...

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