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NumPy Essentials
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NumPy Essentials

by Jaidev Deshpande, Leo (Liang-Huan) Chin, Tanmay Dutta, Shane Holloway
April 2016
Beginner
156 pages
3h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3. Using NumPy Arrays

The beauty of NumPy Arrays is that you can use array indexing and slicing to quickly access your data or perform a computation while keeping the efficiency as the C arrays. There are also plenty of mathematical operations that are supported. In this chapter, we will take an in-depth look at using NumPy Arrays. After this chapter, you will feel comfortable using NumPy Arrays and the bulk of their functionality.

Here is a list of topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Basic operations and the attributes of NumPy Arrays
  • Universal functions (ufuncs) and helper functions
  • Broadcasting rules and shape manipulation
  • Masking NumPy Arrays

Vectorized operations

All NumPy operations are vectorized, where you apply operations to ...

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ISBN: 9781784393670