PACKT PANDAS CKBK PDF

Over 95 hands-on recipes to leverage the power of pandas for efficient scientific computation and data analysis

About This Book

• Use the power of pandas to solve most complex scientific computing problems with ease

• Leverage fast, robust data structures in pandas to gain useful insights from your data

• Practical, easy to implement recipes for quick solutions to common problems in data using pandas

Who This Book Is For

This book is for data scientists, analysts and Python developers who wish to perform data analysis and scientific computing in a practical, hands-on manner. The recipes included in this book are suitable for both novice and advanced users, and contain helpful tips, tricks and caveats wherever necessary. Some understanding of pandas will be helpful, but not mandatory.

What You Will Learn

• Master the fundamentals of pandas to quickly begin exploring any dataset

• Isolate any subset of data by properly selecting and querying the data

• Split data into independent groups before applying aggregations and transformations to each group

• Restructure data into a tidy form to make data analysis and visualization easier

• Prepare messy real-world datasets for machine learning

• Combine and merge data from different sources through pandas SQL-like operations

• Utilize pandas unparalleled time series functionality

• Create beautiful and insightful visualizations through pandas direct hooks to matplotlib and seaborn

In Detail

Pandas is one of the most powerful, flexible, and efficient scientific computing packages in Python. With this book, you will explore data in pandas through dozens of practice problems with detailed solutions in iPython notebooks. This book will provide you with clean, clear recipes, and solutions that explain how to handle common data manipulation and scientific computing tasks with pandas. You will work with different types of datasets, and perform data manipulation and data wrangling effectively. You will explore the power of pandas DataFrames and find out about boolean and multi-indexing. Tasks related to statistical and time series computations, and how to implement them in financial and scientific applications are also covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to master pandas, and perform fast and accurate scientific computing.

Style and approach

This book consists of hands-on recipes where you’ll deal with real-world problems. You’ll execute a series of tasks as you walk through data science challenges using idiomatic pandas. Your one-stop solution for common and not-so-common pain points, this is a book that you must have on the shelf.