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Numerical Computing with Python
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Numerical Computing with Python

by Pratap Dangeti, Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
682 pages
18h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

  1. Load in the movie dataset and set the index as the title:
>>> movie = pd.read_csv('data/movie.csv', index_col='movie_title')
  1. Create a variable to hold each set of criteria independently as a boolean Series:
>>> criteria1 = movie.imdb_score > 8>>> criteria2 = movie.content_rating == 'PG-13'>>> criteria3 = ((movie.title_year < 2000) |                  (movie.title_year > 2009))>>> criteria2.head()     # all criteria Series look similarmovie_title
Avatar                                         True
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End       True
Spectre                                        True
The Dark Knight Rises                          True
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens    False
Name: content_rating, dtype: bool
  1. Combine all the criteria together into a single boolean Series:
>>> criteria_final = criteria1 & criteria2 & criteria3 ...
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