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4. Finding the Meaning

A. J. Henley1  and Dave Wolf2
(1)
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, USA
(2)
Sterling Business Advantage, LLC, Adamstown, Maryland, USA
 

The third stage of data analysis is actually analyzing the data. Finding meaning within your data can be difficult without the right tools. In this section, we look at some of the tools available to the Python user.

With just a few lines of code, you will be able to do the following analysis:

  • Compute descriptive statistics

  • Correlation

  • Linear regression

  • Pivot tables

Computing Aggregate Statistics

As you may have seen in the last chapter, it is easy to get some summary ...

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