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Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

By : Avinash Navlani, Ivan Idris
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Book Image

Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Avinash Navlani, Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

Data analysis enables you to generate value from small and big data by discovering new patterns and trends, and Python is one of the most popular tools for analyzing a wide variety of data. With this book, you’ll get up and running using Python for data analysis by exploring the different phases and methodologies used in data analysis and learning how to use modern libraries from the Python ecosystem to create efficient data pipelines. Starting with the essential statistical and data analysis fundamentals using Python, you’ll perform complex data analysis and modeling, data manipulation, data cleaning, and data visualization using easy-to-follow examples. You’ll then understand how to conduct time series analysis and signal processing using ARMA models. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with smart processing and data analytics using machine learning algorithms such as regression, classification, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and clustering. In the concluding chapters, you’ll work on real-world examples to analyze textual and image data using natural language processing (NLP) and image analytics techniques, respectively. Finally, the book will demonstrate parallel computing using Dask. By the end of this data analysis book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to prepare data for analysis and create meaningful data visualizations for forecasting values from data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Foundation for Data Analysis
6
Section 2: Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Cleaning
11
Section 3: Deep Dive into Machine Learning
15
Section 4: NLP, Image Analytics, and Parallel Computing

Summary

In this chapter, we have explored the NumPy and pandas libraries. Both libraries help deal with arrays and DataFrames. NumPy arrays have the capability to deal with n-dimensional arrays. We have learned about various array properties and operations. Our main focus is on data types, data type as an object, reshaping, stacking, splitting, slicing, and indexing.

We also focused on the pandas library for Python data analysis. We saw how pandas mimics the relational database table functionality. It offers functionality to query, aggregate, manipulate, and join data efficiently.

NumPy and pandas work well together as a tool and make it possible to perform basic data analysis. At this point, you might be tempted to think that pandas is all we need for data analysis. However, there is more to data analysis than meets the eye.

Having picked up the fundamentals, it's time to proceed to data analysis with the commonly used statistics functions in Chapter 3, Statistics. This includes...