Who this book is for

We assume you have been exposed to programming and Python and you want to broaden your horizons and get to know some key libraries in the data analysis field. We think that people with different backgrounds can benefit from this book. If you work in business, finance, in research and development at a lab or university, or if your work contains any data processing or analysis steps and you want know what Python has to offer, then this book can be of help. If you want to get started with basic data processing tasks or time series, then you can find lot of hands-on knowledge in the examples of this book. The strength of this book is its breadth. While we cannot dive very deep into a single package – although we will use Pandas extensively - we hope that we can convey a bigger picture: how the different parts of the Python data ecosystem work and can work together to form one of the most innovative and engaging programming environments.