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SciPy

Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination.

Andrew Lang

In This Chapter

Chapter 7, “NumPy,” covers NumPy arrays, which are foundational building blocks for many data science–related libraries. This chapter introduces the SciPy library, which is a library for mathematics, science, and engineering.

SciPy Overview

The SciPy library is a collection of packages that build on NumPy to provide tools for scientific computing. It includes submodules that deal with optimization, Fourier transformations, signal processing, linear algebra, image processing, and statistics, among others. ...

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