Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The scikit-learn library requires input tables of two-dimensional NumPy arrays."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

import numpy as np #Load the numpy library for fast array
computations
import pandas as pd #Load the pandas data-analysis library
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt #Load the pyplot visualization
library

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.