Data Science Projects with Python - Second Edition

Appendix

1. Data Exploration and Cleaning

Activity 1.01: Exploring the Remaining Financial Features in the Dataset

Solution:

Before beginning, set up your environment and load in the cleaned dataset as follows:

import pandas as pd

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt #import plotting package

#render plotting automatically

%matplotlib inline

import matplotlib as mpl #additional plotting functionality

mpl.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 400 #high resolution figures

mpl.rcParams['font.size'] = 4 #font size for figures

from scipy import stats

import numpy as np

df = pd.read_csv('../../Data/Chapter_1_cleaned_data.csv')

1. Create lists of feature names for the remaining financial features.

   These fall into two groups, so we will make lists of feature names as before, ...