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Practical Data Analysis Using Jupyter Notebook

You're reading from   Practical Data Analysis Using Jupyter Notebook Learn how to speak the language of data by extracting useful and actionable insights using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826031
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marc Wintjen Marc Wintjen
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Preface 1. Section 1: Data Analysis Essentials
2. Fundamentals of Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 3. Overview of Python and Installing Jupyter Notebook 4. Getting Started with NumPy 5. Creating Your First pandas DataFrame 6. Gathering and Loading Data in Python 7. Section 2: Solutions for Data Discovery
8. Visualizing and Working with Time Series Data 9. Exploring, Cleaning, Refining, and Blending Datasets 10. Understanding Joins, Relationships, and Aggregates 11. Plotting, Visualization, and Storytelling 12. Section 3: Working with Unstructured Big Data
13. Exploring Text Data and Unstructured Data 14. Practical Sentiment Analysis 15. Bringing It All Together 16. Works Cited
17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding a Python NumPy array and its importance

Several Python courses on NumPy focus on building programming or statistical examples intended to create a foundation for data science.

While this is important, I want to stay true to anyone who is just getting started working with data so the focus will be the practical usage of Python and NumPy for data analysis.This means not all of the features of NumPy will be covered, so I encourage you to learn more by looking at resources in the Further reading section. The history of the NumPy library has evolved from what was originally named Numerical Python. It was created as an open source project in 2001 by David Ascher, Paul Dubois, Konrad Hinsen, Jim Hugunin, and Travis Oliphant. According to the documentation, the purpose was to extend Python to allow the manipulation of large sets of objects organized in a grid-like fashion.

Python does not support arrays out of the box but does have a similar feature called...

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