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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

by Anish Chapagain
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
8h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Analysis and visualization using pandas and matplotlib

In this section, we will be exploring a few basic concepts with regard to analyzing data using pandas and plotting general charts using matplotlib.

pandas is one of the most popular data analysis libraries in recent times. Data analysis and visualization are major tasks and can be performed with the help of pandas and other libraries such as matplotlib.

For more details and documentation on pandas and matplotlib, please visit their official sites at https://pandas.pydata.org/ and https://matplotlib.org/.

pandas is also termed and used as a raw spreadsheet. It supports mathematical, statistical and query-type statements, and allows you to read from and write to various files. It is also ...

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