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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Exploring Python packages

Before wrapping up this chapter, let's explore the different Python packages required with data analysis and validate they are available to use in the Jupyter Notebook app. These packages have evolved over time and are open source so programmers can contribute and improve the source code.

The version of the Python packages will increment over time depending on when you install conda or pip (package manager) on your machine. If you receive errors running commands, validate they match the versions used in this book.

We will go into more depth about each individual package as we use their awesome features in future chapters. The focus in this chapter is to verify the specific libraries are available, and there are a few different approaches to use such as inspecting the installation folder for specific files on your workstation or running commands from a Python command line. I find the easiest method is to run a few simple commands in...

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