A basic knowledge of Python is essential. Knowledge of importing packages, and experience of working with NumPy, Pandas, and DataFrames, will help the reader get the most out of this book.
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Code in action
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Conventions used
There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.
CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We had to set the x-axis type to datetime in the figure function in order to render dates along the x-axis".
A block of code is set as follows:
#Output the plot
output_file('second_plot.html')
show(plot2)
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
bokeh serve --show bokeh.py
Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text in bold. Here is an example: "We will be working with the S&P 500 stock data found on Kaggle."
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