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Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955248
Pages 478 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Avinash Navlani Avinash Navlani
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Ivan Idris Ivan Idris
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: Foundation for Data Analysis
2. Getting Started with Python Libraries 3. NumPy and pandas 4. Statistics 5. Linear Algebra 6. Section 2: Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Cleaning
7. Data Visualization 8. Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data 9. Cleaning Messy Data 10. Signal Processing and Time Series 11. Section 3: Deep Dive into Machine Learning
12. Supervised Learning - Regression Analysis 13. Supervised Learning - Classification Techniques 14. Unsupervised Learning - PCA and Clustering 15. Section 4: NLP, Image Analytics, and Parallel Computing
16. Analyzing Textual Data 17. Analyzing Image Data 18. Parallel Computing Using Dask 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Software used in this book

Let's discuss the software that will be used in this book. In this book, we are going to use Anaconda IDE to analyze data. Before installing it, let's understand what Anaconda is.

A Python program can easily run on any system that has it installed. We can write a program on a Notepad and run it on the command prompt. We can also write and run Python programs on different IDEs, such as Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, and PyCharm. Anaconda is a freely available open source package containing various data manipulation IDEs and several packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and so on for data analysis purposes. Anaconda can easily be downloaded and installed, as follows:

  1. Download the installer from https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/.
  2. Select the operating system that you are using.
  3. From the Python 3.7 section, select the 32-bit or 64-bit installer option and start downloading.
  4. Run the installer by double-clicking on it.
  5. Once the installation is complete, check your program in the Start menu or search for Anaconda in the Start menu.

Anaconda also has an Anaconda Navigator, which is a desktop GUI application that can be used to launch applications such as Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Rstudio, Visual Studio Code, and JupyterLab:

Now, let's look at IPython, a shell-based computing environment for data analysis.

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