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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas Efficiently perform data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789615326
Length 740 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefanie Molin Stefanie Molin
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Pandas
2. Introduction to Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Pandas DataFrames 4. Section 2: Using Pandas for Data Analysis
5. Data Wrangling with Pandas 6. Aggregating Pandas DataFrames 7. Visualizing Data with Pandas and Matplotlib 8. Plotting with Seaborn and Customization Techniques 9. Section 3: Applications - Real-World Analyses Using Pandas
10. Financial Analysis - Bitcoin and the Stock Market 11. Rule-Based Anomaly Detection 12. Section 4: Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
13. Getting Started with Machine Learning in Python 14. Making Better Predictions - Optimizing Models 15. Machine Learning Anomaly Detection 16. Section 5: Additional Resources
17. The Road Ahead 18. Solutions
19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Plotting with pandas

Both Series and DataFrame objects have a plot() method that allows us to create several different plots and control some aspects of their formatting, such as subplot layout, figure size, titles, and whether to share an axis across subplots. This makes plotting our data much more convenient, as the bulk of the work to create presentable plots is achieved with a single method call. Under the hood, pandas is making several calls to matplotlib to produce our plot.

Some of the frequently used arguments to the plot() method include:

Parameter Purpose Type
kind Determines the plot type String
x/y Column(s) to plot on the x-axis and the y-axis String or list
ax Draws the plot on the Axes object provided Axes
subplots Determines whether to make subplots Boolean
layout Specifies how to arrange the subplots Tuple of (rows, columns)
figsize Size to make...
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