July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
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Preface
"Data analysis is Python's killer app" | ||
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This book is the follow-up to Python Data Analysis. The obvious question is, "what does this new book add?" as Python Data Analysis is pretty great (or so I like to believe) already. This book, Python Data Analysis Cookbook, is targeted at slightly more experienced Pythonistas. A year has passed, so we are using newer versions of software and software libraries that I didn't cover in Python Data Analysis. Also, I've had time to rethink and research, and as a result I decided the following:
- I need to have a toolbox in order to make my life easier and increase reproducibility. I called the toolbox dautil and made it available via PyPi (which can be installed with
pip/easy_install). - My soul-searching ...